Sentence:  You've got to admire their balls. Real Madrid <WSD>screeched</WSD> after them: an entire herd, powerful and co-ordinated, salivating and breathing hard, murder in their eyes. So Barcelona moved the ball on, away from them. Forced back, it was played into Víctor Valdés, the goalkeeper, who slotted it to Carles Puyol, who gave it back again. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released