Before then, Celtic peppered the Falkirk goal, twice hitting the crossbar.
With the game stretched and both teams tearing forward at every opportunity, Macedonia's Slavco Georgievski slammed a shot over the crossbar with the goal at his mercy, while Whittaker replied with a rising shot.
Killie almost made it 3-0 when Wales nodded Garry Hay's free-kick back across goal and Naismith headed against the crossbar.
But where they failed against 14, they succeeded against 15 as Paterson unleashed a slightly mis-hit 35-metre drop-goal which went over via the crossbar.
Pompey's profligacy in front of goal continued when Makouna headed on to the crossbar from inside the six-yard box.
They had a decent chance when Sidwell was penalised for handball 19 yards from goal but Anelka's strike cleared the crossbar by some distance.
Kovalchuk cranked a shot from the blue line that hit the back of the net and bounced back into play as the referees signaled no goal, believing the puck had hit the crossbar.
His floated strike went in off the crossbar close to the centre of the goal - a strike that Robinson might feel he ought to have saved.
Ngog came storming into the six-yard box but, faced with an open goal, contrived to shin the ball against the crossbar, with Kuyt's follow-up diverted to safety.
Henrik Larsson had Sweden's best chance with a first-half header that hit the crossbar, but Russia nearly got its second goal in the 36th when Pavlyuchenko's shot also hit the woodwork.
After Hayes sliced a shot wide of the United goal, another effort by Swanson dipped over the Inverness crossbar and Russell blazed from the left-hand side of the box when he really should have tested Esson.
Wright almost gifted Inverness a goal when his headed clearance under pressure crashed against his own crossbar, but the visitors held on without too much trouble.
From a Portuguese corner, Pepe clanked a shot off the underside of the crossbar, but the ball bounced down on the goal line and spun away to safety.
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Bielsa had made all three substitutions with 30 minutes remaining as he chased the game and Jorge Valdivia almost pulled a goal back with a clean strike that narrowly flew over the crossbar shortly after his introduction, while Julio Cesar denied Suazo, who later clipped the crossbar.
However, Brown was well positioned in the middle of his goal and was able to stretch and knock the ball over the crossbar.
England seemed keen to gift Croatia another goal as first Bridge cleared on to the top of his own crossbar and then Carson repaired some of the damage by brilliantly saving Olic's point-blank header.
But the closest the First Division side came to a goal was when a powerful header from Alex Notman bounced off the crossbar - but it mattered little, because he was in an offside position.
The hosts were eager to get back in front at the start of the second half and were almost gifted a goal when Sean Dillon's mis-hit clearance spun over the crossbar.
Schalke failed to take advantage of Leverkusen's lapse despite extending their unbeaten run to seven matches, as Marcelo Bordon controversially had a goal disallowed soon after halftime when his header hit the underside of the crossbar and appeared to cross the line.
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The game came to life in the final 10 minutes, with Samaras just failing to reach a Stokes cross across the face of goal and a Juarez header striking the face of the Edinburgh side's crossbar.
Sodje had a good chance to grab his second goal moments after the break, but the striker lashed his left-foot effort over the crossbar from just inside the penalty area.
Ahmed Said raced through on goal and lifted the ball over the on rushing Kennedy Mweene but the ball somehow bounced over the crossbar.
After Aiden McGeady's initial shot was bumbled by keeper Igor Akinfeev, Keane's angled cross bounced back off the crossbar and the ball then pin-balled back to McGeady who drove across the face of goal.
The frame of the Hearts goal was rattled again after the break, Ross Forbes' long-range effort clipping the top of the crossbar.
In the 1966 World Cup final, England were awarded a goal against West Germany when Geoff Hurst's shot in extra-time rebounded off the underside of the crossbar.
Matt Jackson almost pulled a goal back for Wigan but directed his header straight at Edwin van der Sar before the luckless Rooney hit the crossbar at the other end from 12 yards.
Giggs, who turns 36 on Sunday, netted with a free-kick three minutes from full-time for the fourth goal and his 100th in the Premier League, while John Utaka's spectacular scissors-kick hit the crossbar with a at the other end.
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