Sometimes, the ball, she is out to get you. That’s certainly what it must have felt like to Switzerland goalie Yann Sommer Wednesday.
A penalty kick went off the crossbar, sending the ball back down where it struck him in the back of the head and then careened into the net for an equalizing goal for Costa Rica.
Own goal on a penalty kick https://t.co/XewCJAaxuE
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) June 27, 2018
That’s just brutal. Though, that it was an own goal is certainly not unique. Not for the 2018 World Cup, which has featured a veritable flood of own goals.
Then again, those haven’t been scored by goalies. This was only the third own goal ever scored by a goalie in the World Cup.
Yann Sommer is the third goalkeeper to score an own goal at a World Cup after Noel Valladares in 2014 and Andoni Zubizarreta in 1998.
— The Most Gadio (@frankewusi123) June 27, 2018