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This week’s roundup also features a horrific wipeout in Portugal, car crash television at San Siro and a Roger Federer masterclass

1) To the Lithuanian city of Siauliai, where not one, but three Gintra Universitetas players missed an open goal against Barcelona in the Women’s Champions League last Wednesday. Barça ran out 6-0 winners. It did, at least, provide an excuse to recall some of the most haunting misses of all time. We’re looking at you, Ryan Giggs (2003), Freddie Ljungberg (2005), Chris Iwulemo (2008), Fernando Torres (2011) and Philipp Hofmann (2014).

Away from the big leagues, there are clangers from Croatia (2009) and Qatar (2010), from Morocco and Algeria in 2013, Serbia in 2016 and Lithuania again, also last year. Finally, two recent contenders from Salim Cissé in Romania and Dennis van Duinen in the Netherlands:

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