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09th Jul 2015

Vine: Canadian striker produces open goal miss so abysmal it’s actually impressive

Good God

Ben Kiely

This guy has a fundamental misunderstanding of how scoring goals works.

To say that Cyle Larin did not cover himself in glory on Thursday would be the understatement of the year.

The Canad striker was presented with a glorious opportunity to give his country the lead in their Gold Cup clash with El Salvador, but somehow managed to mess it up.

The Orlando City forward did all the hard work by rounding the goalkeeper and finding himself with the entire goal at his mercy. However, instead of coolly slotting the ball into the back of the net, he gave some poor bastard in row zed a souvenir of a bruised noggin’.

https://twitter.com/DTang0426/status/618982225745477632

His miss proved costly as the match ended 0-0.

Hat-tip to Bleacher Report

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