The own-goals at this year’s European Championship are coming at a blistering and record-breaking pace.
Two own-goals scored Wednesday by Slovakia in Spain’s 5-0 victory made it eight so far at Euro 2020. That’s already five more than the tournament record of three set at Euro 2016.
The first Slovakian mishap came when goalkeeper Martin Dúbravka pushed a high rebound off the crossbar into his own net. Juraj Kucka then knocked in the final goal of the rout in Seville.
There previously had been only nine own-goals scored in 40 years from the 1976 tournament through Euro 2016. And before this year, there had never been a European Championship game with two own-goals. There have been two in the past week.
Portugal also scored two on Saturday, four minutes apart. Defenders Rúben Dias and Raphaël Guerreiro gave Germany a 2-1 lead in a match the Germans ended up winning 4-2.