De Gea hasn't saved any of his last 12 or something ridiculous.
Awful penalty takers
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As far as top players go, funny enough, Messi is the one that springs to mind.
Owen missed a hatful for Liverpool
Steven Gerrard missed quite a few throughout his career. Not totally sure but I think his success rate was only around 71%.
Transfermarkt have him down for 10/14 and 3/4 with United. However, I'm pretty sure they don't include shootouts in their stats - https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/juan-mata/elfmetertore/spieler/44068
Edit: I don't know know if he's ever taken one in a shootout, mind you, was just saying. Can't remember either way. Checked a couple of other players who definitely have and didn't see those among the stats.
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Wow, if that's right it's even worse than I expected. Strange for such an incredible shot stopper.
Aguero had missed a few for us
Best description you`ll see of that penalty any day. Hats off!Think I'll slip John Terry's name into this conversation.
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I've heard that it was a direct order from the bench for Mahrez to take for whatever reason. Baffling decision.
Yeah, i saw that in an earlier post in this thread. I’d have thought Silva would be a very good pen taker...
Yeah. But funny thing is, he usually scored the *important* ones.
Despite having a good record, I am always nervous when Hazard takes a pen in a way I never was with Lampard. I just hate his penalty taking technique.
Or Dennis Irwin or Eric. The only one I recall Cantona missing was at Leeds.
Nonsense. Hazard is probably one of the best penalty takers in the league. The dude virtually always sends the keeper the wrong way. I don’t know the stats but I’d bet his record is no worse than Lampard’s.
How did he ever get to take 12 pens with Vardy around?
William Carvalho, he is a good passer but someone should tell him that he is not supposed to pass to GK.
You forgot his biggest miss, in Copa Amercia final, retired from NT right after that kick. Though he came back later.
What's your issue with Mark Bunn? Northampton Town legend Mark is.
On topic, Berbatov used to scare me whenever he stepped up to take one. Don't think his record is bad though.
On topic, Berbatov used to scare me whenever he stepped up to take one. Don't think his record is bad though.
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I'd get really annoyed when he pulled rank on Hazard because he missed a good few towards the end of his Chelsea career and Hazard had a 100% record.
He missed one in a friendly shoot out against rangers when he tried to chip the keeper.
This. Worst penalty taker I’ve ever seen. What makes it worse is he usually steps up and actually takes them instead of knowing how bad he is at it
Rooney's penalty record at Utd was bizarre.
He missed about 9 or 10 penalties for us, far too many for such a good player, and yet I'm pretty sure we still won the matches anyway. I don't think any of his misses ever cost us any points.
That must be rather unusual.
He missed about 9 or 10 penalties for us, far too many for such a good player, and yet I'm pretty sure we still won the matches anyway. I don't think any of his misses ever cost us any points.
That must be rather unusual.
Is your name related to Geralt and his ilk?
I never really forgave Berba for that appalling penalty miss against Everton in the FA Cup semi final.
Softly hit right down the middle, absolute dogshite.
Left footed takers usually miss more penalties than rihht footed players.
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Phil doesn’t even qualify for the awful defender list, he is much lower.
Joos valgaren - missed penalty in the shootout v Valencia ref told him retake it, missed again
To be fair Henrik missed his fair share too mind you
To be fair Henrik missed his fair share too mind you
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According to Transfermarket.com,
According to Transfermarket.com, Rooney took 36 penalties for us, scoring 27, but out of those he missed I remember him immediately scoring on the rebound against Liverpool at OT and one against City in the FA cup. So that's 29 out of 36, a success rate of 80%.
Rooney was a weird won. Missed way too many but never important ones
Wasn't it Pep that wanted Mahrez to take the pen?
They often were pretty important though, we just seemed to always get away with it when he missed.
I mean he missed penalties against City, Chelsea, Liverpool x2 and Arsenal x2.
Well he scored the rebounds against City and Liverpool, so I don't know if it counts as a missed penalty. All the other times he missed against top opposition was when we were already ahead. The ones where we really needed him to score, he invariably did.
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Alexis has only scored 3/8 penalties in his career, not even counting the one against Brazil in the 2014 WC shootout. Although he did win the Copa with a Panenka...
He missed against Chelsea (we won), and against Liverpool and City (scored on rebounds and we won). I was always scared to see him shooting.
We haven't had a reliable penalty shooter since Ronaldo left (and even he missed two very big ones), Pogba being probably the best of the remaining ones. On second though, Giggs actually was quite good at them, just that he preferred for whatever reasons to not take them.
Yeah, he was shite at them. Scored 13/23 for Liverpool.