😮 Bizarre 17-metre headed own goal, nightmare start for Mainz

From the very beginning of this Friday evening match, it was crystal clear which team currently sits in the upper half of the table—and which one is languishing at the bottom. And here, the old saying definitely applied: “If you’ve got crap on your shoe…”, and so on.

Not even ten minutes had been played when a cross from Burger sailed in from the left midfield towards the penalty area. At the edge of the box, TSG shooting star Asllani—who was the only change in the starting lineup compared to the last match—rose for a header. He didn’t get to the ball, but Andreas Hanche-Olsen—the only newcomer in the starting eleven for the 05ers—jumped higher, and in this case, that was not good news.

He struck the ball so unfortunately that it looped from more than sixteen (!) meters in a high arc over the helpless Robin Zentner in the Mainz goal.

This meant that Mainz conceded at least one goal in the Bundesliga for the 23rd time in a row today. Of course, nothing is lost yet—the good thing about conceding early goals: there’s always enough time left on the clock to turn things around.

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