Goalkeeper scores one of the most bizarre own goals EVER during play-off clash in Argentina

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Comunicaciones were taking on Arsenal Sarandi at the weekend with the score 0-0, and the goalkeeper had caught the ball from a cross with the aim of getting the game back under way.

Argentine goalkeeper Ezequiel Bacher scored perhaps the most bizarre own goal ever during his side's recent Primera B play-off game.

Comunicaciones were taking on Arsenal Sarandi at the weekend with the score 0-0, and the goalkeeper had caught the ball from a cross with the aim of getting the game back under way.

As he tried to throw the ball out, though, he got it all wrong and ended up launching the ball into his own net.

Bacher, 30, essentially failed to let go of the ball at the right time, leaving his team-mates stunned.

The player himself covered his face with his hand before retrieving the ball to get play started again.

Arsenal players wheeled off in celebration, only for Comunicaciones to level things up in the game soon after. Arsenal, though, scored again, and eventually won 3-2 in the first leg of the tie.

> "Están matando al fútbol" > > Por el "insólito" gol en contra que se hace el arquero de Comunicaciones ante Arsenal. pic.twitter.com/GLUJlcKPXK

Argentine goalkeeper Ezequiel Bacher scored a bizarre own goal during his side's third-tier play-off game

The 30-year-old failed to release the ball from a throw and launched the ball into his own net

Fans flooded to social media to react to the scarcely believable own goal.

One wrote on X: 'Haha, those who think it's because of betting. That's the level of Argentine football.'

Another posted: 'RIP Argentinian football.'

A third shared: 'The Arsenal lot celebrating... you've got some nerve.'

Bacher joined the club at the start of last year, but has always played in his homeland of Argentina.

His Comunicaciones side finished ninth in their league group of Primera B, the third tier of Argentinian football, and were taken on by an Arsenal side that came second.

They will face off in the return leg next Saturday.

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