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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru
The phrase "own goal" is jarring to me. Much more, then, is the phrase "two own goals" — in the same game!
I had to see these plays so I dug them up:
https://www.mlssoccer.com/video/own-...sc-83rd-minute
https://www.mlssoccer.com/video/own-...sc-63rd-minute
Rough on the own goal-assigned players in both cases. In the first, Alfaro is deemed the culprit but it's Brillant's whiff that sets up the goal; Alfaro was trying to clear it. In the second, Brillant gets paid back for the first goal but here, he is just standing in the wrong place as a carom from the goalkeeper's save bounces off his chest.
I assume, by the way, that the last Crew member to touch the ball gets credit for the goal in this case? |
Hmmm. I just realized something. The clock counts up in MLS, correct?
That means, going by this, that Brillant's chest goal came before his whiff that set up the second own goal.
Viewed in that sequence, somehow Brillant looks even worse.
