🎥 World Cup madness: fans CHEER goals against their own team! | OneFootball

In a thrilling Group J finale, Austria and Algeria faced off in a dramatic late-night showdown. While a draw would have been enough for both teams to advance, Rangnick’s side would have been eliminated with a defeat.

And that wasn’t all: if Algeria had taken the win, they would have faced European champions Spain in the round of 32 as group runners-up. In stoppage time, it briefly looked like exactly that would happen. Mahrez scored to make it 3–2 for Algeria. 

At that moment, Spain would have been their next opponent. Some fans were not exactly happy about that and were accordingly upset about their own team’s goal!

And it gets even crazier: when Austria equalized shortly afterwards, avoiding their own elimination and landing the daunting tie against Spain, while Algeria now gets to face Switzerland, that conceded goal was celebrated as if it had been one of their own!

So the World Cup really did turn the world upside down!

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