Meikayla Moore own goals: Ranking the 20 worst individual performances ever

On Sunday night, New Zealand defender Meikayla Moore went viral for all the wrong reasons.

The Liverpool women’s player scored a first-half perfect hat-trick of own goals during his country’s SheBelieves Cup match against USA. 

If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, she was then substituted before half time.

Ouch.

And it got us thinking: What is the worst individual performance of all time?

Scoring a perfect hat-trick of own goals is surely up there but is it the worst? Well, we’ve ranked the 20 worst individual performances of all time – and there are some absolute shockers. 

Be sure to let us know any that we’ve missed out in the comments section on Facebook!

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Back in October 2020, Manchester United lost 6-1 at home to Tottenham and captain Maguire was pretty awful. The moment he pulled down teammate Luke Shaw before Tanguy Ndombele’s equaliser is iconic.

On the very same day, Liverpool conceded SEVEN goals against Aston Villa. While goalkeeper, Adrian, couldn’t be blamed for all seven goals, his performance was far from convincing.

Onto another Liverpool player in the form of Lovren. The Croatian was humiliated by Harry Kane in the opening half an hour against Tottenham before being hauled off by Jurgen Klopp after 32 minutes. Liverpool lost 4-1.

This is a pretty legendary story in Premier League history. Southampton manager, Graeme Souness, was tricked into thinking Dia was the cousin of Ballon d’Or winner George Weah. Despite getting the opportunity to watch him in training, Souness actually brought Dia on for 14 minutes in an actual Premier League game. It soon dawned on him that he’d been the victim of a ruse.

Gerrard wanted to make an impression in his