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Worst miss? Here are some more great ones
- Updated: April 19, 2016
Even Shay Given looked surprised to see Dele Alli’s shot hit the post
One touch to bring the ball under control. Another to take it away from the defender. One more to push it around the keeper – delay, delay, delay to perfection.
Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli was doing everything right as he coasted past Stoke keeper Shay Given – just the post to beat. Ah.
Former Leicester midfielder and BBC Radio 5 live pundit Robbie Savage declared Alli’s miscued effort in Spurs’ 4-0 win on Monday as one of the “greatest misses in Premier League history”.
Alli saw the funny side of his miss, using Tottenham’s Snapchat account to post this self-mocking picture of himself
As it happens, 20-year-old Alli has the world at his feet – and more often than not he’ll stick that world into the net, as he showed with the two goals he did score at the Britannia Stadium.
So, just to make this rarest of English talents feel a bit better about himself, here are some other magnificent Premier League misses.
Ronny Rosenthal – Aston Villa 4-2 Liverpool, 19 September 1992 There was a bobble, right Ronny?
The daddy. The benchmark. The gold standard.
Without Ronny Rosenthal, there would be no yardstick with which to measure all of the other howlers that football gifts us. It’s almost as if open-goal gaffes never existed until this beauty came along.
They did, apparently.
“Ronny Rosenthal, you’ve just been let off…” – Robbie Savage commentates on Dele Alli’s miss
Chasing a long punt upfield, the Liverpool striker rounds Aston Villa keeper Nigel Spink and, from almost right on top of the penalty spot, pokes the ball against the crossbar. It’s possibly the sound of leather against metal that makes this all the more satisfying.
It’s a credit to the quality of this miss that Israeli Ronny is better remembered for this act of squandering than he is for an FA Cup fifth-round replay hat-trick for Tottenham in a remarkable comeback from 2-0 down to win 6-2 against Southampton.
Fernando Torres – Man Utd 3-1 Chelsea, 18 September 2011 …
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