During the clash between France and Honduras, Karim Benzema’s second goal quickly became the center of a controversy: did it cross the line?

France played Honduras as today’s group E games progressed to the end. The French job was made substantially easier by a suicidal Honduran side. The Central Americans seemed nervous from the very start, where they challenged les Blues often too harshly.

The referee can check GoalControl's determination by checking the special watch

Eventually, Wilson Palacios went a step too far when he crashed into Paul Pogba in his own box. The referee had no doubts: red card and penalty kick, which Benzema was never going to miss.

This was the aerial view without the goal-line technology

During the second half however, the Real Madrid striker cracks the ball on the post, the ball bounces across the goal line just before Honduras’ goalkeeper, Noel Valladares, caught the ball. After a quick glance to his watch, Sandro Ricci awarded the goal: GoalControl said ‘yes.’

This was the determination of the GoalControl system 

The innovative system consists, amongst other things, of 14 high-speed cameras located around the pitch, seven focusing on each goalmouth. It immediately and accurately determined that, after Valladares imperceptibly touched the ball, it had briefly and completely crossed the line mid-air.

That is were some cameras for the goal-line technology are located

After the horrors from Lampard in 2010, during England v. Germany, FIFA decided it was time to resolve the issue. It worked.

No doubt a response to this atrocity was needed