5 Biggest Blunders in World Football This Weekend of November 29-30
Another weekend of action has come and gone in the world of football, with the beautiful game bringing us its usual clutch of fantastic performances, amazing goals...and crazy errors, hilarious blunders and woeful mistakes.
This is the story all about that second batch of incidents and moments from the past couple of days—the quick snapshot of the lesser-heralded aspects of the game.
None of the players listed will want to let these moments become a regular feature of their game, much less the supporters of the teams they play for. Here's our top five blunders of the weekend.
Iker Casillas
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We're not quite sure how Iker Casillas managed to go almost the entire game without conceding a goal, given he was back to his flapping, uncertain worst of the past few months and failed to hold a number of routine shots and balls in and around his penalty box.
In the end, he was only beaten by a late, looping header by Malaga striker Roque Santa Cruz, and Real Madrid won 2-1 anyway—but the Spanish international was extremely lucky not to score a terrible own goal after he palmed a shot down into the ground, between his own legs and behind off the post.
Aiden McGeady
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Here's one from late in the week, in the Europa League game between Everton and Wolfsburg.
Winger Aiden McGeady had a great chance to put his side clear in the game with an open goal, as the ball rebounded back to him just a few yards out and with the keeper stranded beyond the near post.
Composure was not the watchword of the moment for the Irish attacker, as he spurned the opportunity quite awfully. Watch the miss right here.
Jan Kirchhoff
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Not an awful lot went right for Schalke 04 in the Champions League this week as they were battered 5-0 at home by Chelsea.
The worst moment was undoubtedly when Jan Kirchhoff rose highest to powerfully head a corner away, but he got his angles all wrong and instead bulleted the ball straight past his own goalkeeper, putting his side three goals down at the time.
Watch the own goal here.
David Fernandez and His Assistants
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Luis Suarez is still left looking for his first goal in La Liga for Barcelona, but he should have had it against Valencia after the referee and his assistants wrongly ruled out a pretty clear goal for the Uruguayan.
Suarez was in line with the defence and reacted quickly to turn the ball over the line with the scores at 0-0, only then to react angrily when he saw the assistant's flag up. The assistant was dead in line with play and should easily have been able to see the goal should have stood. Thankfully for Suarez and Co., Barcelona won the game 1-0 very late on.
Watch the assistants get it wrong here.
Aleksander Seliga
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Veteran goalkeeper and one-time Slovenia international Aleksander Seliga is our final player—another goalkeeper howler—and this time, it did result in a goal.
Seliga's horrendous attempt to kick clear a routine back pass resulted in plenty of hilarity and celebrations from the Krka forward—who seemed pretty happy to claim credit for the goal as his own for some reason—as Olimpija's hapless goalkeeper ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 defeat.
To see Darijan Matic's unlucky own goal, thanks to Seliga's ineptitude, take a look here.
