LEICESTER defender Wout Faes astonishingly scored TWO own goals in SEVEN minutes against Liverpool on Friday evening.
The Foxes took an early lead at Anfield as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall burst through Jurgen Klopp’s backline and slotted home.
But then came a pair of calamitous moments from the visitors’ Belgian centre-back Faes.
A tame Trent Alexander-Arnold cross looked relatively comfortably for the defender as he got across in time to clear it away.
But as he attempted to hack the ball away from danger, he inadvertently scooped it over his own head, looping keeper Danny Ward as it nestled in the far corner.
It was a remarkable own goal… yet that wasn’t the end of the embarrassment for Faes.
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On the stroke of half-time, he found himself securing the rare, unwanted tag of an “own goal brace”.
Liverpool forward Darwin Nunez burst through and dinked the ball over Ward, only to see it come back off the post.
But the Uruguayan still wheeled away celebrating after the incoming Faes could only divert the rebound into his own net.
And football fans cruelly compared the former Reims man to another famously erratic defender – and lookalike – ex-Chelsea and Arsenal man David Luiz.
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The pair both have long, shaggy, curly hair and have been likened in their unpredictable style of defending.
Speaking on social media, one person said: “Only reason Liverpool are winning is because this guy Faes is doing his best David Luiz impression.”
Another added: “There’s a strong David Luiz energy about Faes.”
A third replied: “Turns out Wout Faes is the new David Luiz 😂 – sublime to the ridiculous.”
And a fourth said: “Wout Faes just needs to bang a knuckleball free-kick top bins to be the true second coming of David Luiz.”
One simply added: “David Luiz 2.0.”
Faes has impressed since arriving at the King Power Stadium from Reims for £15million in the summer.
But his first trip to Anfield will be one to forget as he becomes just the fourth player in Premier League history to score two own goals in a single game.
The other three are Jamie Carragher, Michael Proctor and Jonathan Walters.
And the Liverpool fans had some fun with Faes in the second half as they shouted “shoot” whenever he got the ball.
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers described Faes’ first own goal as “freakish” and the second as “unfortunate” and insisted the defender has the strength of character to recover from the calamitous showing.
He said: “It is obviously disappointing for him but he is a really strong character.
“He has been really good for us since he arrived from Reims.
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He was away at the World Cup and didn’t play a minute so it will take him a few games to get his rhythm back. He has shown the level he can get to.
Tonight he was just unfortunate but I thought he responded brilliantly in the second half.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
