Wout Faes Is Not The First Premier League Player To Score Two Own Goals In One Game

Leicester City defender Wout Faes scored two own goals at Liverpool. But Faes was not the first Premier League player to score two own goals in one game.

Leicester City center-back Wout Faes scored two own goals within the space of seven minutes during the first half of his team's 2-1 loss at Liverpool on Friday.

The 24-year-old looked like he wanted the ground to swallow him up after firing past his own keeper for the second time.

But while his calamitous brace was spectacularly bad, it was not unprecedented.

VIDEO: Watch Wout Faes Score TWO Own Goals For Liverpool In Seven Minutes

2 - Wout Faes is the fourth player with two own goals in a single Premier League game, after Jamie Carragher (1999, Liverpool vs Man Utd), Michael Proctor (2003, Sunderland vs Charlton) and Jonathan Walters (2013, Stoke vs Chelsea). Accomplice. pic.twitter.com/KXuyFExLtP

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Three players before Faes had scored two own goals in one Premier League game.

Faes was not even the first player to score two own goals in the first half of an EPL game at Anfield.

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was the first when he put through his own net twice in a 3-2 loss to Manchester United in September 1999.

A REMINDER:#OnThisDay 1999
Manchester United beat Liverpool 3-2 at Anfield.

It was an unfortunate day for Jamie Carragher who scored two own goals...pic.twitter.com/P8BtZeObss

— Football Remind ⚽️ (@FootballRemind) September 11, 2020

Sunderland's Michael Proctor then scored twice for Charlton in 2003.

Ten years later, Stoke City forward Jonathan Walters scored twice at the wrong end in a 4-0 loss to Chelsea. Walters also missed a penalty kick in that game.

Chin up, Wout!

Jonathan Walters scored two own goals in Stoke City's 4-0 loss to Chelsea in 2013 :: IMAGO/Sportimage/Simon Bellis