{"id":9674,"date":"2022-02-16T09:09:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/16\/what-is-lionel-messis-penalty-record-how-does-it-compare-to-cristiano-ronaldos\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T14:09:32","slug":"what-is-lionel-messis-penalty-record-how-does-it-compare-to-cristiano-ronaldos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/02\/16\/what-is-lionel-messis-penalty-record-how-does-it-compare-to-cristiano-ronaldos\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Lionel Messi\u2019s penalty record &amp; how does it compare to Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lionel Messi\u2019s PSG faced off with Real Madrid on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> of February in a Round of 16 Champions League clash.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the hour mark, PSG were awarded a penalty and Messi would step up to take it.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lionel Messi\u2019s penalty was pretty average and was easily saved.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lionel Messi ? Thibaut Courtois from 12 yards\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The big Belgian comes out on top!<\/p>\n<p>This could be a huge moment in the tie.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8i4GZAZxqK\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8i4GZAZxqK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btsportfootball\/status\/1493697711757053958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nFollowing that penalty save it has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en\/news\/messi-matches-record-for-most-missed-penalties-in-champions\/blt27d664a4b7ba83ed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a>\u00a0that Lionel Messi has matched Thierry Henry\u2019s record for most missed penalties in Champions League history while surpassing Cristiano Ronaldo for most penalty attempts.<\/p>\n<p>An unwanted record to say that least and one that also begs the question, how bad is Lionel Messi at penalties.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Lionel Messi\u2019s penalty record for club &amp; country?<\/h2>\n<p>The Argentine is arguably one of if not the greatest player to ever grace a football pitch, but it is a fairly common assumption that Messi\u2019s penalty-taking abilities are not that great.<\/p>\n<p>But what is Messi\u2019s penalty record? That information, at least at club level, has now been revealed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/football\/2022\/02\/16\/lionel-messi-one-greatest-footballers-time-does-miss-many\/?utm_content=football&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1645011266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telegraph<\/a> who confirm that the South American has, excluding shootouts, scored 84 scored from 110 taken for his clubs, which is a conversion rate of 76.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>It is added that, in the past 15 seasons in the top five European leagues, penalties have been scored at a rate of 77.1 per cent \u2013 putting Messi within a percentage point of the mean.<\/p>\n<p>For Argentina, meanwhile, <strong>101<\/strong> have found out that Messi has scored 17 penalties in all competitions, excluding shootouts, and has missed four.<\/p>\n<h2>Messi\u2019s penalty record vs Cristiano Ronaldo\u2019s<\/h2>\n<p>And for those interested, the Telegraph have also confirmed how Messi\u2019s club penalty record stacks up with Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>On this occasion it is Ronaldo who comes out on top, converting 85.2 per cent of his club penalties compared to Messi\u2019s 76.4 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>For Portugal, meanwhile, <strong>101<\/strong> can confirm that Ronaldo has scored 16 penalties and missed seven.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi\u2019s PSG faced off with Real Madrid on the 15th of February in a Round of 16 Champions League clash. Shortly after the hour mark, PSG were awarded a penalty and Messi would step up to take it. However, Lionel Messi\u2019s penalty was pretty average and was easily saved. Lionel Messi ? Thibaut Courtois [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-9674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}