World Cup 2018: Mario Mandzukic scores first ever final own goal taking tournament tally to a record 12 as Croatia lose
Croatian nodded an Antoine Griezmann free-kick into his own net to become the owner of a very unwanted record
MARIO MANDZUKIC scored the first-ever own goal in a World Cup final... and taken the tournament's tally to a record 12.
The Croatian - who scored the winner against England in extra-time of the semi-final - nodded an Antoine Griezmann free-kick into his own net as Croatia lost 4-2.
In doing so, Mandzukic became the first person to ever find the back of his own net in a World Cup final game.
However, he can feel somewhat unlucky, as Paul Pogba - who leapt for the header with Mandzukic - started in an offside position.
Fortunately for Mandzukic, Ivan Perisic scored a beauty at the other end just minutes later to level the tie at 1-1 - before things went quickly south for the Croats.
No World Cup final had been settled in 90 minutes since 2002 - when Brazil beat Germany 2-0... but France saw to this game with a second-half blitz.
Going into this tournament the record for most own goals in a tournament stood at just SIX - set in 1998.
This summer's showpiece in Russia has incredibly doubled that tally... check out the full list of own goals at the 2018 edition below.
- Aziz Bouhaddouz of Morocco (FT Morocco 0-1 Iran)
- Aziz Behich of Australia (FT Australia 1-2 France)
- Oghenekaro Etebo of Nigeria (FT Nigeria 0-2 Croatia)
- Thiago Cionek of Poland (FT Poland 1-2 Senegal)
- Ahmed Fathy of Egypt (FT Russia 3-1 Egypt)
- Denis Cheryshev of Russia (FT Uruguay 3-0 Russia)
- Yann Sommer of Costa Rica (FT Switzerland 2-2 Costa Rica)
- Edson Alvarez of Sweden (FT Mexico 0-3 Sweden)
- Yassine Meriah of Tunisia (FT Panama 1-2 Tunisia)
- Sergei Ignashevich of Russia (FT Spain 1-1 Russia - Russia won on pen)
- Fernandinho of Brazil (FT Brazil 1-2 Belgium)
- Mario Mandzukic of Croatia (Croatia vs France - World Cup final)
