Goalkeepers are the last defense between the rival and the goal. Professional goalkeepers are characterized by being able to protect the goal of their team and therefore maintain the favorable result. The problems come when they fail, since, although all the players do it, when a goalkeeper does it it usually means a goal against.
Today we are going to review the goalkeeping mistakes that cost the most, based on the thread posted by OmarBS On twitter.
In the 2018 World Cup, Spain and Portugal faced each other in the first game of the group stage. With the game tied, De Gea did not block a centered shot from Cristiano, which ended up getting inside. This goal ended up costing Spain the victory, although not the classification.
The Unión Comercio goalkeeper came out for a ball and hurt himself. On the ground lamenting, he left the ball on the ground and the rival striker took the opportunity to score. His team lost and the goalkeeper had to go out supported by his teammates as the anger was more than visible after the opponent’s lack of fair play.
Bayern’s substitute goalkeeper had to play in the Champions semi-finals in 2018. When the Germans had the match tied at the Bernábeu, a pass from Thiago made it difficult for the goalkeeper, who, because he did not catch it with his hand to commit a loan, let her go to that Benzema scored at will.
In the 2018 World Cup there were several mistakes made by international goalkeepers. This one from Caballero, after trying to chip the ball, was very popular, since it cost Argentina the game, which finally had to be second in the group.
Valdés is a FC Barcelona legend, but in the 2012 Spanish Super Cup, against Real Madrid, he made a mistake that cost his team the title. After receiving a pass, he tried to get around Di María with a dribble, but it went wrong and the Argentine ended up scoring.
The 2018 World Cup champion goalkeeper was also not spared from making mistakes, and he did so in the final of the championship. Lloris became nervous under pressure from Mandzukic and failed to clear a ball, allowing the Croatian to score after the bad rebound.
In the 1990 World Cup, the Argentine goalkeeper did not block a very easy shot from the Cameroon striker, which caused the goal of the Africans and the Argentine defeat. This defeat would cost him the qualification to the next phase.
This image shows a moment of the match between Czech Republic Turkey in which the Czech goalkeeper failed to save the ball and left the ball dead for Nihat to finish off for Turkey. With this ruling, the Czech Republic lost and Turkey qualified.
Following the trail of errors from the 2018 World Cup, Muslera committed one of the most notorious in the quarterfinals against France. The Uruguayan did not manage to clear a long shot well and ended up allowing the rival goal. The doorman had lost his grandmother the day before.
The Arsenal goalkeeper saw the Cup Winners’ Cup slip away from his team against Zaragoza for being too far ahead. Nayim fired from midfield with a rare hit, which allowed the ball to drop right into the goal of Seaman, who failed to clear it.
Spain faced the Netherlands in the 2014 group stage and had one of the worst games in memory of La Roja. Casillas was partly to blame for poor control that allowed Van Persie to reach the ball and steal it to score. That year, Spain would be eliminated in the group stage.
Pedro Gallese starred in one of the most notorious failures of the 2019 Copa América against Brazil in the group stage. Luckily for him and Peru, they later managed to qualify for the final with great performances from the goalkeeper.
Without a doubt, 2013 was a bad year for Juan Flores. The Peruvian goalkeeper made another mistake for his team that would end up costing him another defeat, by trusting himself and allowing a rival to snatch the ball from him.
Higuita was always characterized by being a goalkeeper with the soul of a player. An exit with the ball almost to the center of the field in the second round of the 1990 World Cup cost him dearly, as he lost the ball and allowed Cameroon to score and eliminate them.
The Colombian goalkeeper made a huge mistake in the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1996. With América de Cali, Córdoba tried to clear a ball, but he gave it to a River Plate rival, who would give it to Crespo to finish at will. and they will take the Cup for Argentina.
The German goalkeeper was not saved from making a mistake in the 2018 World Cup and when his team lost to Korea, he wanted to go out to help them come back and qualify, but it went very badly and the Koreans recovered the ball and scored at their pleasure without opposition.
In the final of the 1997 Copa América, the goalkeepers of Bolivia and Brazil were the protagonists with two anthological sings.
This goalkeeper scored an own goal trying to clear the ball with his foot in 2015, when his team, Al-Faisaly, was playing the championship.
The German goalkeeper will go down in history for making his team lose the Champions League final against Real Madrid. Karius gave a ball to Benzema and allowed him to score the first of the targets, and he did not know how to clear well a long shot from Bale, which ended up entering.
One of the most remembered failures in history. Spain lost the 1984 Euro Cup final against France by a goal in which the ball slipped from behind the goalkeeper Arconada, when he had almost controlled the ball that Platini had thrown from a direct free kick. history. Spain lost the 1984 Euro Cup final against France by a goal in which the ball slipped from behind the goalkeeper Arconada, when he had almost controlled the ball that Platini had thrown at him from a direct free kick.
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