Faes

LONDON – Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp had sympathy for Leicester's Wout Faes, after the defender scored two calamitous own goals as the Reds won 2-1 in ...

We have to take the result and momentum but have to play better in our next match against Brentford.” “He has come back a bit rusty, not playing at the World Cup with Belgium, and it’s going to take him time to get back to speed. And the second one, if you have ever played football, you go full speed in that situation, direction of the goal, you would expect the ball goes in. But he’s also been fantastic for us this season. “I had that once in my career – that a player scored two own goals. “The first, how can it be more unlucky?

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.

Leicester City's Belgian defender Wout Faes inadvertently boosted Liverpool's hopes of making the UEFA Champions League by scoring two own-goals in his team's 2 ...

Cuban Baseball Federation president Juan Reinaldo Perez Pardo said in a statement that organizers of the event had received a license allowing Cubans playing in the MLB or residing in the US to join the Cuban team, who are to play their first game of the tournament on March 8 in Taichung. We had chances to kill the game at 3-0, but still, good points.” The manager of the Kaohsiung Steelers yesterday declined to say whether the team had initiated contact with Jeremy Lin following the former NBA star’s announcement that he was leaving the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), but added that any team would jump at any chance to strengthen their roster. The goals were completely against the run of play, we’ve lost two goals to throw ins. We won, which is positive, but there are plenty of things we have to improve on,” he said. “He has come back a little rusty having not played in a long time having got no minutes with Belgium at the [FIFA] World Cup,” Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers said.