diff --git a/R/join.R b/R/join.R
index 28c459e59..b7ade1bb7 100644
--- a/R/join.R
+++ b/R/join.R
@@ -174,7 +174,8 @@ st_join.sf = function(x, y, join = st_intersects, ..., suffix = c(".x", ".y"),
 	if (inherits(x, "tbl_df") && requireNamespace("dplyr", quietly = TRUE))
 		st_sf(dplyr::bind_cols(x[ix,], y[unlist(i), , drop = FALSE]))
   	else
-		st_sf(cbind(as.data.frame(x)[ix,], y[unlist(i), , drop = FALSE]))	
+	        st_sf(cbind(as.data.frame(x)[ix, ,drop=FALSE], y[unlist(i), , drop = FALSE]))
+	
 }
 
 #' @export