The direct way to beat English goalkeeper? (5,3)

I believe the answer is:

route one

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'english goalkeeper?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.

'the direct way to beat' is the wordplay.
'the direct way' becomes 'one' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'beat' becomes 'route' (I've seen this in another clue).
'one' after 'route' is 'ROUTE ONE'.

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I've seen this clue in The Independent.

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