Ball Deflecting into the Goal when Saving

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It's not a crash or something like that, but I doubt that it's intended, so for me the bug tag seems adequate. In the last patch, changes have been made to the goalkeeper so that close-up shots may be more frequently deflected instead of just caugth. I'm not making it to say that I think it was a good or a bad change, but about something that occurred to me apparently as a consequence of that change.
Yesterday, in the 9th of June, I was playing a very close ranked 3v3 match, we were in overtime with 3 goals each, the opponent kicked the ball over our goal from afar and it just rebounded pretty low off the wall. The ball was close to the goal and they weren't pressuring it either so it was very easy to catch as a GK, but then, I can only imagine that the game thought the ball was rebounding "too close" for my character to just catch it normally, so she just took her hands out of the way and literally headbutted it in, making us lose to game for free, no mistake or anything.

For me it just feels specially bad because it's not rewarding or punishing anybody, and because it doesn't seem to take much to get into a similar situation: the opponent's kick wasn't good, wasn't even on target, and I don't even know for sure if the intention was to score in the first place, it could be just bouncing off the wall to set up an attacker; and I didn't do any mistakes or play way too defensive either, I proactively used my jump as the goalkeeper to catch the ball earlier in a safer way as to not allow any follow-ups from their offense; and also because it might happen at anytime, it doesn't even need to be in a tense situation, they might've missed the goal, bounced it closer than they should or just be trying to bait me, etc... And now this might change the way I play because I'm worried about own-goaling an easy catch for no reason.

Need additional information Gameplay Goalkeeper Suggested by: SaryM Upvoted: 10 Jun Comments: 2

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