Agree to disagree, I don't think there's any way he could have possibly missed the goal with no keeper in it looking straight at it. From a strategic standpoint, they are two players who, in my view, did everything in their power to stop a goal without being in reach of the ball to do so, so one of them goes for a handball to reach the ball that he couldn't hit with his head, and the other goes for the striker's legs since he is not within reach of the ball anymore.