Note: Skip the first four paragraphs to get to the soccer.
We’ll start this off with a little mini-rant that you couldn’t care less about, but it needs to see the light of day lest we see a perfectly good device go to waste via hackery. The use of the adverb literally as a compositional device has gotten out of hand. Without diving into the etymology, the proper use of literally that people are missing out on these days (frequently-I ain’t kiddin’) is a device to establish that a superlative or seemingly boastful claim isn’t mere hyperbole; no, it’s real.