A 22-minute stoppage-time penalty, and a seagull, for FutbolEssence
"It Was Never A Penalty 💔" passed 2.6 million views in six days, and its comments are busy correcting which country the match came from.
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It Was Never A Penalty 💔
Among the football channels close to FutbolEssence in size, none gathered more views over the week, and the gap is wide. The clips channel, which edits other people's football footage into Shorts, added around 23 million views in seven days. Zedsnap, next in line, managed about half that, while The Rest Is Football and Rory Jennings ran far below their usual pace.
Three new Shorts went up, and the one doing the most work is "It Was Never A Penalty 💔". It shows a spot kick given deep into stoppage time with no clear foul, and the comment section has turned into a fact-checking desk. The caption calls it Argentina, and Argentine viewers write back that it is Bolivian football, that the crest shown belongs to Independiente, and that the goalkeeper let the penalty in on purpose as a protest. Others are stuck on the clock: 22 minutes into added time, when the board seemed to promise six.
"Ancelloti Couldn't Believe It 😂" made the quicker start, with about 670,000 views on its first day. The newest arrival, "When Players Saved A Seagull ❤️🩹", is a gentler kind of football moment, and it nearly matched the penalty clip's daily pace within a day of going up.
About 12,000 new subscribers arrived over the week, carrying the channel just past half a million. Views ran a little below its usual daily pace, which for a channel this busy still means millions a day.
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What viewers say
22min and says 6 😂
@MS7YOUNISSee it on YouTubeIm from Argentina, And that was in the Bolivian league. Why didn't the goalkeeper save the penalty? Because, as you saw in the video, there was never any foul. That's why the goalkeeper didn't save the penalty as a form of protest.
@AlexHerrera-x3ySee it on YouTubeDid anyone notice how there was meant to be 6 minutes added on but there is 22 minutes
@elainekelly3190See it on YouTube
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22 minutes... fookin hell ref
@XevrynalrSee it on YouTubeAnfield typa extra time 😭💔
@KevinJohnson-n5zSee it on YouTube90+23?
@Yavuz6151See it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on FutbolEssence right now
- Channel
- FutbolEssence
- Subscribers
- 501,000 ▲ 12,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 22,785,522
- Videos published this week
- 3
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,616,330
- Views on its first day
- 278,654
The numbers
Here is how FutbolEssence's week looks in figures.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which Argentine club, whose crest turns up in the penalty clip, holds the record for most Copa Libertadores titles?
Independiente has won the Copa Libertadores seven times, more than any other club.
