the worst miss I‘ve ever seen.”

Super Eagles captain Nwankwo Kanu has criticised Yakubu Aiyegbeni after the Everton forward missed an open goal during their 2-2 draw with South Korea in their last World Cup group game in Durban on Tuesday.

The result helped the Asians progress to the knockout stages of the tournament in south Africa at the expense of the Eagles.

Yakubu spurned a glorious opportunity to level up with the game standing at 2-1, directing his shot wide when he was presented with an open-goal, inside the six-yard box.

“As a striker, I think that‘s the easiest one to score, so if you miss it then I don‘t know what you will do,” Kanu said of Yakubu‘s miss during a post-match press conference.

”If we didn‘t create the chances we would have complained, but in fact we made them but didn‘t take them.

”The fact is that we played South Korea, a very good team who worked very hard, and we didn‘t take our chances.”

Former England international striker Alan Shearer said on the BBC, “I reckon that‘s the worst miss I‘ve ever seen.”

South Korea gave Guus Hiddink honorary citizenship after he led them to the 2002 World Cup semifinals and Yakubu will no doubt also have a special place in Korean hearts after his gaffes in front of goal allowed them to make the last 16 this time around.

It marks the first time South Korea has advanced to the second round of World Cup finals on foreign soil.

They were helped in no small part by some woeful Nigerian finishing, including the miss of the tournament when an unmarked Yakubu somehow managed to sidefoot the ball wide from six metres out and an open goal at his mercy.

It was an astonishing miss, one of the worst of any World Cup, and will undoubtedly be replayed in Yakubu‘s mind and on ”Football‘s Funniest