Penalty penalty wasted … Barcelona’s dilemma

Barcelona has recently suffered from a lack of success in taking penalty kicks, and the last wasted Argentine star, Lionel Messi, was the first player in Barca.

In the 57th minute of the Valencia and Barca match yesterday, Messi missed a penalty kick at a decisive moment when Barca were behind with a clean goal.

The Catalan players wasted 7 kicks out of 17 attempts this season, and the failure rate reached 41%.

It is noteworthy that the “Polga” missed 3 of the 7 kicks, two of which were in front of Valencia, while he missed a penalty against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League.

In addition to the “Bolga”, the French Antoine Griezmann, Osman Dembele, the Dane’s Martin Brathwaite and the Bosnian Miralem Pjanic missed penalties.

As happened in the first-leg match of Valencia, Messi came back in the second leg and scored the goal yesterday after the goalkeeper tackled a penalty kick that was rejected by the goalkeeper, and Messi scored a “fabulous” goal from a direct free kick, raising his score to 28 goals in the top scorer in the League, 7 goals ahead of French Karim Benzema is in second place.