This World Cup has seen 132 goals so far and we’ve seen some scintillating ones, but we’ve also had a fair share of ‘freak’ goals. There have been a number of own goals so far, Spain benefitting from the latest one as Ignashevich scored at the wrong end as far as Russia were concerned.
He did not know about much about it, but Ignashevich scored the tenth own goal at Russia 2018, extending the record for most at a single edition. The 38-year-old was marking Sergio Ramos tightly on a free-kick, turned his back to the incoming cross and the ball redirected off his boot and into his own net.
Spain have been getting the rub of the green in a number of important encounters. Apart from the own-goal on the night, the attempted clearance deflecting off Costa into Iran’s goal was vital to their progression to the Round of Sixteen and they got out of jail in their final group stage encounter against Morocco.