“Worst Miss Ever!” – Except This Actually Might Be

YouTube videos (and blog posts, including some of mine) often come with hyperbolic titles. So when I see anything titled “Worst _____ Ever!”, I immediately reach for my skeptical spectacles.

However, the above YouTube video titled “Worst football miss ever!” made me put them down again. I’m not saying that it’s categorically, definitely, no takesy-backsies the worst miss ever. Just that if we ever have that discussion, then Dinamo Zagreb’s Ilija Sivonjić failing to finish an open goal from three inches out has to be somewhere in the conversation.

Mostly because the usual “worst miss” videos feature balls being struck hard and over from close range. It looks bad, but you can sort of understand how it happened because anything can happen when you attempt to strike a ball hard.

But in this case that excuse just isn’t valid. There’s a defender at Sivonjić’s back, but seems all Sivonjić has to do is gently poke the ball home. Or even just not do anything, as it was almost certainly going in anyway. So, worst miss ever? Has to be up there. Do you have anything that compares?

Thanks to wob for sending this to tips[at]theoffside[dot]com

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