7 best goal line clearances ever

#5 Varane against Barca

This will forever be remembered as the game where the mighty Barcelona were single-handedly stopped by a 19-year-old defender who was playing in his first ever El Clasico. Till date, this clash against Barcelona was Raphael Varane’s best game and one of the greatest ever by a defender.

Stopping an entire attack all alone is one thing, stopping the players of peak Barcelona is something else entirely. As Madrid were looking to ascertain their dominance over the Catalans, they were held with the blow of losing their first choice defenders, Ramos and Pepe.

Ricardo Carvalho was on a severe decline at that point of time, leaving Varane with the added burden of covering for the ageing Portuguese. And he did it with style. As Carvalho back-pass fell kindly on to Fabregas, the Spaniard rounded Diego Lopez before squaring the ball for Xavi Hernandez.

The midfield maestro had ample space and time to shoot at an open goal. So he took two touches to put himself in a comfortable shooting position and then shot it with the assurance of a goal, but little did he know that Varane was surging in like an express train and stopped the ball from going in at the very last moment.