Originally Posted by jeffiner1892:
“Fair enough using goal line technology for something like that but do they really need to when we've just seen the ball make the net budge?”
Mark Chapman said on Twitter that the contract between FIFA and the GLT company states that the graphic HAS to be shown at least once a game. Therefore to make sure it gets an outing they show the first goal regardless of how obvious it is that the ball went in.
So, in short, blame FIFA. Again