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Originally Posted by PaulParkersPubes
By definition then, they were not well taken chances. If they were, they'd have gone in. Having someone in your way trying to stop the ball going into the net is hardly a new obstacle for players to deal with. If you hit the keeper or allow him to save it, you've not taken your chance.
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Yeah, by definition, but that's not the spirit of what I was getting at. The point was that a missed chance is not always 'squandered' because the keeper has saved it. 'Squandered' implies a BAD miss, I'm sure we'd agree - not EVERY miss or save is a result of a striker's error. Sometimes they hit a perfectly brilliant shot and it doesn't go in, i.e. Juan Mata v De Gea.