Barcelona's 'Phantom Goal' vs. Real Madrid in El Clasico + Xavi's undecided future | ESPN FC 

A billion dollar league and you can't have enough cameras?

As a Madrid fan I will love a replay lol 😂😂😂😂

Here are a few relevant facts: 1. During half time of the Classico, the La Liga president, Javier Tebas, posted on X (twitter) articles saying how goal line technology can get calls wrong, almost defending its absence in La Liga. 2. Javier Tebas chose not to have goal line technology in La Liga citing that it is too expensive. The cost to buy the license for the technology from FIFA is 3.5 million. This is the biggest share of the expense to include this technology. 3. Recently, 18 out of 20 La Liga teams voted to reelect Javier Tebas and increase his salary from 3.36 to 5.4 million. Barcelona voted in favor and Real Madrid was one of the two teams that voted against it.

Nothing will come out of it. I'm shocked they didn't have goal-line technology

At the start of the season Barcelona was one of the teams that voted against goal line tech, while real was for it.

What about the Valencia away game where the ref not only blew the whistle for Carvajal’s cross to Bellingham while the ball was in the air (disallowing his goal) and then giving Bellingham a red card AFTER the final whistle not even for a personal insult? That was just as serious but you don’t see RM still crying about it.

Laliga President Tebas earns 5.4M Euros but he think spending 3M Euros on Goal Line technology is expensive and unnecessary

So Var can't say it was a goal?! Bruh 😅

The clubs wanted goal line technology but the league didn’t want it.

Whenever they lose, its a problem with someone/something else. Never their own… I havent yet seen them lose and come and say “well we played bad, they were better”… 🤦🏻‍♂️

Finally espn fc crew without Ale and Craig 😂

barca was the team to vote against goal line tech and madrid in favor but now they cry

Imagine asking the game be replayed only to lose by a bigger margin. 🤣🤣🤣 As a Real Madrid fan I really want to see the game replayed.

I hope the game will be replayed so Madrid can give them a 6-0. The only reason why it was only 3-2 because barca was playing against a tired madrid that played 120 minutes against probably the most demanding side in the world.

ESPN crew have never been in favor of Barcelona in anything

Even with all the VAR mess the only one to blame for the loss is Cancelo.. he has officially hurt us more than he has helped us this season, pep was right 💔

Xavi is the man for the job. If he can’t do it, under these circumstances, no one else can. If someone else comes and does it, it will be building on top of the strong base that Xavi built anyway. A new manager won’t be able to take full credit for success.

As a madrid fans i want replayed please make it happen

My word, Steve is hilarious 😂😂😂 cancelo looking where to find lucas vazquez

Is Barca ready to give up their 2010 CL and we replay the final with Chelsea and other team

The sun, the pitch, the press making the players nervous… Xavi is a JOKE of a manager 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Yesterday I really love the way ancelotti rotate the team

Only two La Liga clubs actually voted against Tebas’ salary raise and his dismissal of goal-line tech for being ‘too expensive’ - Athletic Bilbao and Real Madrid. The rest of La Liga clubs, Barca included, made their bed and now they can lie in it. Laporta at this point is just a caricature that needs to lay off the Cocktails and Canapés. Funny how he doesn’t make a statement asking for all the relevant evidence for the Negreira case, but I suppose it is a bit difficult now to replay 20 years of La Liga games and UCL ties like Chelsea vs. Barca 2009. Regardless - Barca need to clean house, be coherent with their complaints and sort themselves out first before pointing fingers at anyone else.

They want a rematch? Lmao! Sure, lets have it then, when RM is fully rested.

0:42 Real madrid will 100 percent not do the same After we had a goal ruled out due to abysmal referring decision to blow the whistle while the cross was in the air, we did not shamelessly ask for a replay We went on to smash other teams

Last week Mbappe and Dembele destroyed them and last night we destroyed them too This is deeply deeply sad 😢

There was more than 60 camera in the stadium high tech high end cameras and a 360 camera aswell and they couldn't check if the ball crossed the line but a random guy in the cheapest seats so far away with an Android camera phone recorded the ball crossed the line goal 💀

Joa Cancelo: You guys like to kick a man while he is down, don't you? The man is having a run - give him a break.

let me remind you all that real madrid was the only club that voted in FAVOR of goal line technology. the rest of la liga clubs voted against it. so dont come complain about it now

If it was Madrid I can guarantee they would have found an angle

I was waiting for them to show that the ball didnt go in all the way but I remember at the World Cup when Spain played Japan and they had that ball that looked like it went out of bounds but apparently because it was touching a little bit they counted the goal. So they have the technology to do it so show it!

Why they never showed the angle from the corner flag? I am sure they have a camera (s) behind it

If Barca wants a replay so bad, they should wait till Madrid has clear schedule which is in a couple of months (next season basically)

Lets all remember Barca voted for Tebas 😂

Why do you remove the replays?

With or without Xavi, one thing is for certain at Barcelona is that they need to make some changes in the summer because you can’t go into next season with the same squad it’s just not possible. You’ll finish the season trophy less out of the title race in La Liga, they’re not in the champions league and they’re an easily beatable team. Many of their problems can’t be down to Xavi even if he at times has gotten his tactics and substitutions wrong at times, they probably need a better manager, but their problems beyond the coach. In recent years they don’t deliver when it matters the most, look at the Liverpool collapse at Anfield and the crumble against Roma, same thing against Bayern Munich when they lost to them 8-2, back to back seasons in the Europa League, couldn’t even win the Europa League typical Barca fashion, lost 4-1 to PSG at home twice in a span of 3 years and this season they’ve lost every time they’ve played against Real Madrid and if you count the Copa Del Rey semifinals last season in the 2nd leg that’s 4 losses in a row against Madrid. This is a worrying trend that they had under previous managers not just Xavi and his European record there is absolutely woeful. Barcelona are further away than ever before from getting back to being an elite European team and winning the Champions League and this Barca DNA that worked for them in the early 2000s that Xavi has been trying to implement doesn’t work with the current squad. The team as a whole need to be rejuvenated if they want to get back to competing for trophies and they can’t make any significant transfers because they don’t have money. You need to offload players in order to balance the books because you don’t want to only sign players on a free transfer or loan them out, academy players have been working for them, you don’t want to ask them to play 50+ games a season at such a young age, one of the best players on the team is a 16 year old. This team really needs to strengthen the squad big time whether it’s the attack midfield or even one of the fullback positions and whether Xavi stays or they get a new manager, they have to be backed in the transfer window and get the right players for the system. It’s not just offloading players or making significant transfers that they need to do, what’s concerning about Barcelona is the amount of injuries they’ve had particularly in the midfield. That is their biggest problem and apart from Gundogan, Pedri de Jong and Gavi have missed a chunk of the season due to injuries and it’s been a recurring problem for them all season. That’s another reason why Barcelona are a laughingstock and someone is getting fired at the end of the season and it’s not their manager. Whether how fragile the players are or their medical staff in general, Barcelona’s biggest problem is injuries and that makes them a joke of a football club. You have to really question them especially since ousmane Dembele struggled with injuries at Barcelona, yet all of a sudden why he has been fit all season since his move to PSG last summer. When a former player is saying that they don’t use any of the training facilities in the gym that’s a problem and that’s part of their injury crisis.

They can stop the game and show the line for offside, but they cant stop and tell if the ball crossed the line

I think its weird that nobody talks about Camavinga being the last man and fouling Lamin Yamal and only get a yellow card But Var or the referee did not react at all

There is one image which is 100% conclusive, i can't believe VAR OFFICIALS mentioned that there is no proper image

Lord pessi 😂 fan's crying 😂😂

Only if Varca would've spent 7 million on quality players instead of paying Enrique negiria they would've won the match 😂

Go ask Almeria..

Did Stevie see what ter Stegen said after the game? The players care and being 5 points behind Madrid with the head-to-head rule will put a lot of pressure on Madrid (who need to also focus on the UCL).

What no one is talking about is that Cubarsi was impeding Lunin and in the off side position. The question at hand is millimeters, the distance between the ball and the line. Let's say the ball did cross and say it was a goal. VAR would then come into play and rule Cubarsi off side, goal disallowed. Goal line should not be an issue in 2024 in La Liga of all leagues ffs!!! This hurts everyone involved and all other teams.

RSPN again I didn't expect to hear anything else smh

We need some kinda of goal line technology in La Liga, not necessarily Uefas

Many modern players lack something as basic as anticipation, I can understand for very young players, but when experienced players lack it, it baffles me.

Barcelona are just not it anymore, haven’t been in a long time. All they have is a past “ we had Messi” statements. Madrid moved on post Ronaldo and still achieved wins in the CL, copa, laliga, etc. They need to grow up and face their defeats.

La league should include goalline technology. This is really insane.

Let’s replay that Chelsea game

It was offside anyway Cubarsi blocking Lin's vision.

I hope Xavi stays because he is the reason why the club still exists

one thing about Barca is when things aren't going there way they find something to complain about the problem is their president who doesn't sign good players he signs all the free transfer players who were unwanted in their own team

This is the highlight of Barcelona season they will talk about it for the rest of the season and year

Don't care about the replay or the result, but it's just embarrising that one of the top 5 leagues in Europe does not have a basic goal line technology.

That's why leone pessi says that Cristiano Ronaldo best in the world

Man got pimslapped by the mighty PSG and lost El classico in the same week. Man it feels so good to look at the present time where glory awaits PSG, and not have a bunch of barca fans living in the past.

If its confirmed? Means there isn't any confirmation yet. While Laporta is waiting why doesn't he put in a request for the 2009 CL semifinal 2nd leg between Chelsea to be replayed? It has been confirmed that Chelsea were not awarded 4 clear penalties.

How does La Liga not have goal line technology?

It's funny how quickly people turn on players. Cancelo had 2 bad games. Yes, they were very important games, but when he scored goals and had great assists, he was the hero. I think Cancelo has value to Barca, I just think he is in the wrong position. I think he would be better in the Midfield or as a Forward. He has speed, likes to have ball possession and he likes to take shots on goal. His natural instinct is not to defend so it doesn't make sense why he is there in the first place. I think he has more value to Barca than Felix. Araujo was on the hit list last game. Most of the season he was our most valuable defender. Raphinha was getting blasted for most of the season and then he scored in 2 straight games, and everyone loved him. If you truly are a Barca fan, stop trying to tear down their team.

They should listen to Laporta's statement instead of only a fragment! He ecven suggested that the point difference in the league is the result of negative referee results to Barcelona and positive decisions for Madrid. Also, there's a reason why UEFA is taking the least referees from Spain than any other major league in Europe.

Goal line tech needed and the new automated offside system needed

2:10 there’s literally footage coming out of it crossing the line

It was 1-1 when it happened. If it ended 2-1 to madrid or even 3-1 we could say that decision affected the results. But Barcelona scored and it was 1-2 to Barcelona and they went on to concede 2 more goals. So that decision didn't affect anything. At the end of the day the only ones they can blame is themselves.

It is a lie that none of the video angles were definitive. The speed of the ball, the goalkeeper's position shows it was a goal

I do understand where Laporta is coming from this could give Barca 1-3 advantage in a clasico and then with Madrid attacking who knows what would have happened, with Madrid playing 3 more games in Europe and 5 point difference in the league anything could happen!

Goal line technology cost 260k per stadium , that s 5.2 m for the whole league . And it cost 4k to run each game , that s 1.5 m the whole season ( 38 weeks x 10 games) TOTAL cost from A to Z is 6.3 m

It is common sense like you said that concelo need to look around especially behind him for opponents. But my take is that Tersegan barca goal keeper, should communicate with him becos, the goal keeper is the last man and should see the dange,hence it's behovle on the goal keeper to draw his defenders attention to the danger posted by the opponents by communicating with his defenders

Not only the goal also the penalty

Rafa would be a blessing he knows all the La Masia players and he WILL use them al. For example we have Faye on the bench a real talent in the back. Rafa Will use him. And he will use more players like Lamine, Cubarsi, Gavi, Balde, Forth and he will use them all and bring in even more talents from La Masia. Don’t forget that these players used to play and live together since they where toddlers. That’s what makes La Masia great we are a family. That’s how Guardiola did it in his time. Brought 80% of the starting 11 from La Masia

there was not a single loss where barca did not complain about the ref this season. it their minds they are the best team in the world

As a Madrid fan! I would love a replay. We play with no defense except for rudigar

As a Madrid fan I'll love a replay 😂😂😂

Are we surprise at the scandalous referring in laliga

If the refs are going to help real mardrid they should atleast make it less obvious. Tebas decided not to pay 3.5 million for goal line technology, laliga probably made more than 3.5 million euros from just the elclasico alone

VARcelona will never lose in peace 😂

Even if that goal was allowed, Real Madrid would score one more goal and win. While watching game it felt like Real Madrid players were playing with 70% of their best. Even after getting a head start and leading twice they couldn’t keep the lead even for 10 minutes. Vini could have scored back to back hat trick against Barca but looked like he was not really interested in causing trauma.

You wanna whine about the ghost goal? Fine give them the goal but take away the first goal where Christensen blatantly pushed off of Kroos.

VAR in Laliga - Videos Assisting Realmadrid😅

goalline teck has been a topic in laliga for many years - but Tebas will not pay a couple of mill..

CR 7 best in the world ❤

People can say whatever they wish, but Barca fans know that if its the other way around 100 out of 100 times Real Madrid is getting awarded that goal, the penalty awarded to Vazquez if the other way around would have been judged as having dragged his foot and no penalty given. The camavinga kick of Yamal in the box would have been looked at by VAR.the foul on camavinga on yamal where he gets the yellow would be red ( as we know from a couple days prior where Araujo gets the red vs psg ).

its NOT about more technology....in any other decade its a goal

Jules said goal line tech costs 3,5 million. It’s hard to believe these clubs don’t have that money. A single club pays more on a salary per week.

Barcelona and their fanbase will be complaining and whinnying for many years to come. Unless they sort out their own problems first. It's not helping them at any level whatsoever.

They should also reply that match vs chelsea 2009

Tebas should have been demoted from president, however Barcelona and 17 teams voted for his salary increase,smh.

Imagine if we win the league by 13 points and they actually make us replay barça. We will put the academy team to play against them 😂😂😂

the goalkeeper entire body was over the line .. his hand wasn't spreaded outwards.. his hands were narrowed in front trying to hold the ball..

The favour done for RMD in la liga for so many years and until now is beyond common sense

He is upset because while they are paying referees yet they are not getting the favours from them.

I hope they finally adopt the technology every other top League have

The angle that i have seen looks like it went ober pretty clearly..its all over Twitter

CANCELO IS THE ONE WHO DRIBLE BY VASQUEZ BEFORE THE GOAL

🤣🤣🤣 “FIX IT!!!”

It was a goal. And Barca were also robbed by the red card in the CL against PSG.

Seems like Laporte will fire Xavi him during next season that's going to be sad 😅

When there's no direct evidence, you look at indirect evidence. In this case a direct evidence would be the footage from cameras installed in the crossbar. But we have indirect evidence: GKs position (all of his body inside the goal, except his right foot), his posture (is he leaning towards left or right?), position of his hands and of the ball. We've got all these information from the camera footage. And the conclusion is obvious - it's a goal.

Without fresh bodies and reinforcements, it does not matter who the next coach is.

I can't imagine people will profession can't admit that it was a goal, where the ball came from before it came back on the line, secondly what about the penalty that was given to RM, WAS IT?