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24th Feb 2018

Incredible scenes as 2. Bundesliga goalkeeper ‘glitches’ and concedes after walking into his own goal

We've genuinely never seen anything like this.

Wil Jones

We’ve genuinely never seen anything like this.

Is this proof we are living in The Matrix? One of the most remarkable goal keeping errors of all time happened in today’s 2. Bundesliga tie between Duisburg and Ingolstadt.

Ingolstadt striker Stefan Kutschke was able to score the simplest of tap ins after Duisburg keeper Mark Flekken appeared to ‘glitch’ and appear standing clueless behind the goal line as Kutschke ran in to put it away. It was as if you were playing a video game, and something went wrong with the programming.

Just watch, it is incredible.

Repeat viewings make it clear Flekken was actually going to pick up his water bottle, and then stood startled when he realised what was happening.

We are sure the mistake will haunt him for the rest of his days.