Wout Faes

2022 - 12 - 31

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Watch Wout Faes Score TWO Own Goals For Liverpool In Seven ... (Sports Illustrated)

Wout Faes scored two own goals during the first half of Friday's Premier League game between Liverpool and Leicester City at Anfield. Watch them both here.

Faes did intercept the cross but he sliced his attempted clearance and then watched on in horror as the ball spun high into the air before landing inside the Leicester goal via the post. Liverpool right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold swung in a cross from the right and Faes stretched to intercept it. Leicester had taken a shock early lead courtesy of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall before Faes unintentionally leveled for Liverpool in the 38th minute.

Faes scores two own goals as Liverpool beats Leicester (TSN)

When Dewsbury-Hall picked up the ball 50 yards out following a long goal kick, he easily brushed off Jordan Henderson and ran unopposed betwee Andy Robertson ...

Leicester has now lost back-to-back games after the World Cup break and remain just four points above the relegation zone. Nunez was then played through on goal by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and dinked a shot over Ward that bounced back off the far post. After a poor opening 15 minutes, Liverpool finally found some semblance of cohesion, with Mohamed Salah stabbing wide from Darwin Nunez’s counter and cross.

Wout Faes endured a nightmare at Anfield but his errors point to a ... (The Athletic)

Wout Faes claimed the unwanted headlines at Anfield but perhaps the focus should really be on the role of keeper Danny Ward.

And there was an incident in the second half at Anfield too, when [Daniel Amartey](https://theathletic.com/football/player/daniel-amartey-R0UFnJbyuxk0gnLn/) decided to intercept a high ball Ward had called for. I was no more disappointed than anyone else in the team to let one in. There was not a blame culture in the clubs I was at. He is ranked fourth on the all-time Premier League list for own goals scored, with six, although just three came in his six years with the club. Faes is racing back towards his own goal at full throttle as Nunez’s shot cannons back off the post. But this wasn’t the first time a defender in front of Ward has decided to intervene rather than heed the call. “He goes with the wrong foot, that’s the biggest problem for me. The first was unlucky and even more unlucky with the second one, because if you have played football and you go full speed in the direction of the goal your brain tells you the ball is going in and then it hits the post and you can’t react.” [‘What’s it like to score an own goal?’” he told The Athletic last year](https://theathletic.com/2386684/2021/05/20/what-it-feels-like-to-score-an-own-goal/). “It’s just a decision you have to make as a defender,” he said. Faes couldn’t believe it, his Leicester team-mates and the celebrating Liverpool players couldn’t either, nor could anyone else in the ground. Here, Ward can be heard calling as the ball comes into the box.

Wout Faes can recover from double own-goal horror, insists Rodgers (The Guardian)

Brendan Rodgers said Wout Faes had the character to recover from scoring two own goals in Leicester's 2-1 defeat at Liverpool.

Credit to Leicester, it is no coincidence they have a decent away record, but we had massive chances to finish the game off and didn’t use them. There was no real trouble coming in, the ball is coming into Danny’s hands, but as a defender you have to make those decisions. Tonight he was just unfortunate but I thought he responded brilliantly in the second half.”

Leicester City's Wout Faes has a day he'd like to forget against ... (SB Nation)

Faes scored not one, but two, own goals against Liverpool.

Leicester City’s loss keeps them in the bottom third, just four points clear of the drop zone. Then, just minutes later, Faes raced back to try and help as his keeper was forced to come off the line. In the span of just seven minutes, Faes scored not one, but two, own goals, turning a 1-0 Leicester City lead into a 2-1 deficit to Liverpool. His contract is for a five-year deal. The center-back made a name for himself as the captain of one of Belgium’s youth national teams, helping the U17 win a bronze medal at the 2015 UEFA U-17 World Cup. He was Reims’ Player of the Year a season ago.

Wout Faes has 'absolute nightmare' with TWO own goals against ... (talkSPORT.com)

Leicester defender Wout Faes had a night to forget at Anfield as he scored TWO own goals to gift Liverpool a 2-1 win.Things had started so well for th.

“The first one was absolutely unlucky. “But since he has been with us he has been absolutely brilliant. “Of course I feel sympathy, there is space for that but whatever I say now will not change that. He has shown the level he can get to. “There is no real trouble, the ball is coming into Danny’s hands but as a defender you make those decisions. if you know that the goal is just behind you, take your time, be patient, clear your lines and then think about where the ball is after that.