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	An attacker gained the ball near the half-way line and rushes toward the opponent's goal with a defender running near him.
	Because another attacker was wide open and equally close to the goal line, the attacker with the ball went to the side of the goal. The only defenders near him were the one already mentioned and the goalkeeper.
	The attacker faked a shot, which drew both the defender and the goalkeeper.
	Instead of shooting the ball, he passed the ball straight to the wide open teammate who was by now clearly in an offside position.
	Before the ball arrived at the wide open attacker, another defender ran from behind play, lunged one foot to the ball, and accidentally redirected the ball straight into his own goal.
	What's your call?

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Offside! No goal.

At the moment the pass was made by the teammate, toward the attacker in an offside position, the attacker became involved in the play and he would have gained an advantage from being in that position.

The deflection of the ball by the defender into his own goal is irrelevant, because the offside infraction had occurred prior to that.

The restart would be an indirect free kick taken from the place where the infringement occurred, keeping in mind the "Special Circumstances" listed in Law 8.