• Universidad de Concepción midfielder spots keeper off line in league game • ‘Pinto was always playing in advance of his goal so I closed my eyes and hit it’

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It has been a good week for goalkeepers scoring goals but, after Oscarine Masuluke’s heroics for Baroka FC in South Africa, Miguel Angel Pinto will not want to remember stoppage time of Sunday’s match against Universidad de Concepción.

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With his O’Higgins team-mates chasing an equaliser in the Chilean Primera División encounter, Pinto launched the ball long in the hope of starting another attack. But when the goalkeeper’s kick failed to clear the centre circle, he must have feared the worst.

Sensing his opportunity, the Argentinian midfielder Alejandro Camargo volleyed the ball back first time and watched as it sailed over the helplessly stranded Pinto and into the net without bouncing to put the seal on a 3-1 victory for the home side.

“The coach told us Pinto was always playing in advance of his goal so I closed my eyes and hit it,” Camargo said afterwards.