Final score saying Holtby effort went over the line

[Toby Ward-Smith]

The commentator on final score and the group of them at the match for BBC said that they have looked at a number of replays and believe that Holtby's effort blocked by Lowton was over the line. I have never trusted goal line technology and this almost certainly proves it doesn't work on a few occasions.

[westcliffchil]

But the important thing is that the two previous goals did count. What a great moral boost for Players and supporters.

[Nick Bateman]

Yes I saw the replay where they can 'doctor' it to suit their technology.  It was controversial at Wimbledon for many years and who is to say where the line can be drawn on grass accurately to that degree??

[RaySmith]

I've read that it's unreliable.

[Macedo]

Yes Motson said they looked at it few times.It was over line he thinks.
But Holtby should have thumped it in open goal.
Still it all worked out fine.

[Count Berbatov]

Could a decision on that be changed? After the game

[filham]

We had a similar effort disallowed the other week , this technology is not serving us well.

[RaySmith]

Yes Motson said they looked at it few times.It was over line he thinks.
But Holtby should have thumped it in open goal.
Still it all worked out fine.

Holtby was staggering a bit after  the tackle, when he could have gone down for a pen, but he stayed on his feet, but wasn't able to hit the ball with full power.

It was gutting though -I thought our luck was out again.

But then Hugo!!!!!!!!!! 049:gif

[Bracken White]

Think we were done here ... but may be biased. Surely both this and the Everton 'goal' could have been given. There was one at Norwich, too, if I'm not mistaken.
So good to see today that we weren't dismayed by this, rather the opposite.

[Jamie88]

I can't understand the opinion that the naked eye can see it on the replay...we saw what the cameras saw, it looked in but wasn't conclusive as the defenders foot was blocking the view. The goal-line technology showed the tiiiiniest part of the ball touching the line. As tough as it may be to take at the time, goal-line technology is the most accurate thing we have to quickly distinguish whether the ball has crossed the line or not. Considerably better than the human eye imo.

[Fulham Tup North]

 092.gif   .....and the thing is, if we did not have technology, chances are the goals would not have been given anyway.   The only difference now is that we get to see a 'video' impression of the shot and do not have to just rely on stopping the tape to see how close it was afterwards.
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[Artful Dodger]

To be fair, I was almost in line with it (along with lots of other fans as well obviously) and it didn't look like it had gone in and there wasn't much protest from fans or players - more disbelief really. Obviously we didn't have slo-mo replay and I dare say most of us were already in mid celebration but thankfully it didn't matter in the end!

[Rhys Lightning 63]

Here is the GDS view of things.

[fulhamben]

Here is the GDS view of things.

unless the ball is shaped like marrow, the real time picture looks well over

[Blanco]

Maybe this is why the Bundesliga chose not to use goal line technology. It's not 100% reliable.

[PokerMatt]

Yeah, that's what I thought - the replay does not correspond to where HawkEye thinks the ball is. Absolutely clear on that first image.

I'm almost certain it would have been allowed last season.

[fulhamben]

Maybe this is why the Bundesliga chose not to use goal line technology. It's not 100% reliable.

well to be fair, it does not have to be 100% reliable, just more reliable than a lino

[God The Mechanic]

The ball can be over the line in mid air, but due to "splatting" (technical term!) look on the live when it hits the line.

[Rhys Lightning 63]

This still doesn't excuse the fact that Holtby BALLSED UP!!! He had the WHOLE GOAL to aim at, and he hit it straight at the defenders legs

[God The Mechanic]

This still doesn't excuse the fact that Holtby BALLSED UP!!! He had the WHOLE GOAL to aim at, and he hit it straight at the defenders legs

He didn't hit it straight at the defenders legs, Lowton had to stretch which is what made it such a good block!  Should have scored though :P