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Hummels own goal equals tournament record just 12 games into Euro 2020

The German centre-back's mistake marked the third time a ball has been directed into the wrong net in the opening week of the competition

Germany centre-back Mats Hummels became the third player to score an own goal at Euro 2020 when he turned the ball into the wrong net in the first half of their 1-0 defeat to France on Tuesday, equalling the record for an entire Euopean Championship tournament.

Poland's Wojciech Szczesny and Turkey's Merih Demiral had already scored own goals in the group stage - the latter inadvertently netting the first goal of Euro 2020 in the opening match - before Hummels' error in the first half of the match in Munich.