Watch: Brentford B score incredible own goal against Manchester United's U23s

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The Bees bagged a real classic of the genre in their 3-1 win over the Red Devils on Tuesday evening

This is brutal.

The own goal is bad enough, of course - it's the classic overhit backpass, mixed with the goalkeeper's strange "should I, shouldn't I" attempt to stop the ball with his hand and then a mad, futile dash back towards his own goal.

However, it's worse when you know that this happened within three minutes of the game starting and that the poor goalkeeper was actually a trialist. He won't be thanking Jaakko Oksanen after this...

Still, all's well that ended well: Brentford B went on to beat United's development side 3-1.  

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Seb Stafford-Bloor

Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.