5 Biggest Blunders in World Football This Weekend
Welcome to our usual roundup of the hilarious and the dreadful over the weekend of football action around the world, where we take a light-hearted look at the biggest mistakes around.
This time we've decided to look at two very different ends of the world football scale: some of the highest-profile European domestic leagues and a couple of the footballing backwaters of the world.
Sit back, hold on...and try not to repeat any of the following the next time you take to the pitch.
Neto
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Stefan Savic got his name on the scoresheet at both ends in Fiorentina's 4-1 win at Cesena in Serie A this weekend—but he has his own goalkeeper to thank for the own goal, rather than it being his own mistake.
Taking a routine header back from 25 yards, keeper Neto took his eye off the ball, the pitch and possibly off the entire planet to gift Cesena a way back into the game.
Check out the keeper error here.
Jozy Altidore
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Jozy Altidore doesn't score many goals.
There isn't really much to add here except perhaps this is why.
Robert Lewandowski
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Just to prove for Altidore's sake that even the best of strikers can have the odd bad miss, here's Robert Lewandowski failing to score for Bayern Munich from barely two yards out, too.
All right, technically this is from just prior to the weekend's games, but it's such an astonishing miss from a top talent that we had to include it. So keep your head up, Jozy!
Watch Lewandowski's miss here.
Kuwait League Shenanigans
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We don't appear to have too many details of exactly who was involved here, but per 101GreatGoals.com, the footage comes from Kuwait and the individuals involved are unknown.
What happens is...well, you're probably just better off watching.
Safe to say, after two players clash in an aerial battle and end up on the floor, one reacts in a way you wouldn't normally expect. And nor did his opponent expect (or appreciate) it.
Watch it here!
Generous Malaysian Defence
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We finish up with a low-key international game from Thursday night where Malaysia beat Singapore 4-2 in the AFF Cup, but it wasn't as comfortable as it might have been after gifting a goal to their opponents late on.
Two defenders against one forward, a long, hopeful, aimless ball—there shouldn't really be too much danger.
Instead, both let it bounce, one failed epically to make any kind of contact when attempting to, you know, kick, and then the other failed to make a tackle and stop the forward from scoring. Impressive work all round.
Watch it here!
