A thread of the worst misses in football history, in no particular order.

First up is Lesotho striker Tumelo Khutlang, fluffing his lines not once but twice in a 1-0 win over Tanzania in 2018.

This one is fairly iconic.

Chris Iwelumo with a remarkable miss in a World Cup qualifier against Norway back in 2008. Look at his face - just look at his face!

A bit less famous than his goal in the same competition against the same opponents 8 years earlier.

Here’s Ryan Giggs inexplicably lofting his shot over the bar at 0-0 in Man Utd’s defeat by Arsenal in the 2003 FA Cup semi.

Early doors but this could be the worst one in the whole thread. From less than a year ago.

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, take a bow. This is sensational.

Readers of a certain age will be more than familiar with this one, mostly thanks to Nick Hancock’s Football Nightmares.

If you haven’t seen it before, you’re in for a treat. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Noah Hickey.

Fahad Khalfan of Qatar, here. Absolutely ludicrous.

If this miss wasn’t bad enough, he also lives in the same country as Richard Keys. Poor bastard.

Another bona fide classic.

This miss by Ronnie Rosenthal was the benchmark for many years, before the age in which every glaring miss was seen from 100 angles.

Diana Ross. You could tell she didn’t fancy it from the run-up.

If you like this sort of thing, you should really be following @Crap90sFootball.

A good example of their work here, with Aiden Newhouse being crap at football in the 90s.

Here’s Freddie Ljungberg, he doesn’t miss those! Oh.

Some players work better on instinct. Give them too much time and they’ll make the wrong decision.

Here’s Rocky Baptiste with all the time in the world. He makes the wrong decision.

To be fair to Peter van Vossen, the ball comes at him pretty quickly and he’s... no sorry, this is just awful.

See, back in the days of Football Nightmares and Own Goals & Gaffes, this type of miss might never have been known to us.

Now everything’s recorded all the time and it’s wonderful. This is Ilija Sivonjic of Dinamo Zagreb.

There was a lot to love about Yakubu.

But this miss was in the World Cup, in a game Nigeria needed to win. In the World Cup! Pretty bad.

A more recent one. By no means as bad a miss as some of the others in the thread, but to miss a chance like this to make it 4-0 in injury time of a Champions League semi final first leg? Ousmane Dembélé must have replayed this one a few times.

Here’s Pedro Neto missing an open goal against Espanyol tonight.

Yep, that’s a bad one.

I think this is Lucas Masoero, an Argentinian defender for Bulgarian side Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

Just 5 minutes into their cup tie against CSKA 1948.

Miss - hands on head - oh hang on - miss - hands on head. Beautiful.

Thanks @pablomiguezdm for the spot.

Samassi Abou scored just 26 goals in 240 games as a professional. That ratio probably wasn’t helped by missing chances like this.

Football’s back, misses are back!

Here’s Jonas Hoffman of @borussia_en with an incredible miss yesterday. A bit of credit should go to Hinteregger on the line I guess.

Oh, Raheem, this is a really bad one.

It’s not the worst miss in the thread but it’s the Champions League quarter final. Maybe it really is the worst miss in the thread.

Oh, Raheem.

Back in 2011, Wales were starting to show flashes of the quality that would see them reach the Euro 2016 semis.

They might have qualified for 2012 too were it not for this glaring miss by Robert Earnshaw 13 minutes from the end of this Wembley defeat.

Nominated by @thehuwdavies

This one was definitely easier to score.

Nwankwo Kanu: great player, great miss.

Ultimately, West Brom stayed up despite being bottom at Christmas so it didn’t matter and no-one remembers it. Right? Ah.

Meet Arnaldo Vera, a Paraguayan defender for Libertad.

Here he is going for an unorthodox finish off the shin in a 2003 Copa Libertadores tie. His blushes were spared somewhat by the fact they won 5-1, but the scoreline isn’t what comes up when you google his name.

This is Dennis van Duinen of Harkemase Boys in the Dutch fourth division.

Not quite the same stage as some of the others in the thread but a contender nonetheless. He approaches it with such confidence, too.

Back in February, Crewe and Plymouth both pushing for promotion to League 1.

Crewe’s Alex Porter missed this chance to put his side ahead, with Plymouth going on to win the game. Luckily both sides went up anyway.

Thanks to @EloBrown for the nomination.

Mattia Destro for Bologna against SPAL a couple of years ago.

You know some of the misses in the thread are funny but irrelevant, as they won anyway? This was a chance to equalise in the 93rd minute. Oh dear.

The quality of the video’s about as good as the quality of the finish.

It might have been a pre-season friendly, but nothing sums up Diego Forlan’s Man Utd career better than this.

Fernando Torres is 19 league games into his Chelsea career, looking low on confidence after his £50m move from Liverpool.

Despite having scored earlier to reduce the deficit, this was the moment where it seemed he would never be the same player again.

Jakub Błaszczykowski towards the end of a 2-1 Dortmund win over Freiburg. Shame, prefer the ones when the miss is vital.

The commentary’s great on this one, sound on.

No idea who this is I’m afraid, I believe it’s from a lower league match in Brazil.

Made even better by the laughter in the background. Cruel, but probably deserved in this case.

Revelation: missed penalties count for this thread. Let’s have some awful penalties.

It’s another Own Goals & Gaffes classic: Peter Devine. That name again: Peter Devine.

You can’t talk about worst missed penalties without including Simone Zaza’s effort in Euro 2016. Haven’t watched this for a while.

What an absolute beauty.

Often, penalties which go over the bar look far worse misses than they really are, as the trajectory means the ball keeps rising even if they narrowly missed.

No such excuse for Neymar. This is really shit.

Two things to make sure of when you attempt a panenka:

1: get it on target
2: reach the goal

The guilty party here is a Bordeaux striker by the name of Eric Cantona. Doubt he amounted to much.

This one is absolutely ridiculous. Not even sure how he does this.

Ivan Rocha of Alavés in a La Liga match in 1998. The score was 0-0 at the time. Valencia won 1-0. Oh, mate.