A bizarre selfie in Japan! Social networks are having fun. This is how a defender sent the opposing team into the lead

The Japanese league is entertaining the football world. Specifically, a video of the Shonan vs. Yokohama game. In the match, an own goal was scored, which is not easy to see. The defender who scored it didn’t finish the game.

The new season has recently started in Japan and the J1 League has now started its second round. Shonan and Yokohama were the two teams that played in the preliminary round.

Players of the former team went into the match as favourites, but in the first minute they had to fish the ball out of their own net when Koki Ogawa scored.

Shonan, however, were determined to equalise quite quickly and also made a quick turnaround. The goal was scored in the seventeenth minute by 23-year-old Japanese international Shuto Machino to make it 1-1.

However, the most talked about goal in the context of the duel was the 2:1 goal. It was scored by Yokohama defender Takuya Wada. At 32 years of age, few would have expected him to make such a mistake.

What actually happened? Yokohama tried to play a sequential attack from their goal while Shonan players were pressing. That’s when Wada, who wanted to play the ball to his teammate in his own half.

Unfortunately, he was too cautious with his cross, and the weather didn’t help him much either, as it was raining heavily and the wind was blowing quite strongly. A pass to a teammate turned into an own goal.

But the fact is that the weather is no excuse for Wada. On the contrary. With his experience, he should have acted differently in similar situations. Better. He didn’t choose the space he passed into well either.

Wada was taken off the field in the 64th minute. But in the 83rd minute, fortunately for him, Ogawa equalised for the second time in the match, at least for the final 2:2.

Source: Twitter, J1 League