Liverpool got a lucky 2–1 home win over Leicester.
Wout Faes (left) tries to disappear from the face of the earth after equalizing the match with an own goal. PDO
The home crowd at Anfield Road had a great time.
Every time Leicester City’s Belgian striker Wout Faes got the ball, a collective shout of fire could be heard from the stands.
The reason was that Faes had time to make history by completing two wonderful own goals. With their help, Liverpool had turned the match in their favor.
Leicester took advantage of the sleepy Pool defense falling asleep already in the fourth minute of the game, when Kieran Dewsbury-Hall ran without anyone blocking the visitors to a 1–0 lead.
For a long time, it seemed that Ketut would be in the lead even at the break, because Liverpool’s offensive game was stuttering really badly. That’s when Faes, who was also part of Belgium’s World Cup group, appeared, who completely inexplicably tried to cut off the harmless Trent Alexander-Arnold concentration.
The ball would have dropped directly to the Leicester keeper Danny Ward’s lap, but his role was only to watch and watch as Faes’ miserably unsuccessful takedown attempt flew in a handsome arc into the back top corner.
Even after the equaliser, Ward tried to encourage Faes to forget his misfortune, but his team mates’ cheers ended when the Belgian once again scooped the ball into his own.
The story continues after the video
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This time Faes’s farce was due to his clumsiness, because he just couldn’t get his steps to fit so that he would have been able to clean the ball that bounced off the post into wider waters.
Instead, the defender raised the ball handsomely into the ceiling of his own goal.
Premier League history only knew three previous cases (Liverpool Jamie Carragher 1999, Sunderland Michael Proctor 2003 and Stoken Jonathan Walters 2013), where the player would have scored two own goals in the same match.
To Faes’ credit, he didn’t manage to pull the hat trick on the wrong end.
There were no more goals in the second period, and this is how Liverpool collected the luckiest home win in modern history.