Last night in stadium 974 Argentina walked past Lewandowski’s Polish side with a 2-0 victory. Know the penalty record and conversion rate of Lionel Messi as he missed another one
The act which caught the spotlight in the match was Argentinian star Leo Messi missing a penalty in the 38th minute of the game.
Lionel Messi Penalty Conversion Rate, FIFA World Cup Record And How Many Penalties Has He Missed
Despite the fact that Argentina is through to the knockout stages by topping their group with 6 points fans didn’t spare a chance to bash Messi for his penalty miss.
Leo Messi missed a penalty in the 38th minute of the match
Argentina got awarded a penalty in the 38th minute of the game when Polish Goalkeeper Scezney caught Leo Messi’s face unintentionally to parry away the ball. It was a very soft penalty as the contact made by Scezney was clearly unintentional but VAR thought the other way.
The moment Messi stepped up to take the Poland skipper Lewandowski had a word with his goalkeeper. Scezney guessed correctly and dived on his left side where Messi shot his penalty.
Wojciech Szczฤsny became only the third goalkeeper to save 2 Penalties in a single World Cup
The Polish goalkeeper pulled off 2 world-class penalty saves in the group stages of the FIFA World Cup 2022. His first match-defining save came against Suadi Arabia and then in the next game against Messi’s Argentina. Before him, only Brad Friedel (2002 of USA) and Jan Tomaszewski (1974 of Poland) have done this.
Messi’s missed penalty tally goes to 31
The arguably best player of all time has founded difficult to put the ball inside the net from the Penalty spot. Though he has a pretty impressive conversion rate of 77%, the Parisian has missed some of the most crucial penalties throughout his career.
Messi has missed 4 penalties in his International career now. One of the most crucial he missed was back in Copa America 2016 final against Chile.
Lately this year Messi missed a crucial spot kick against Ancelloti’s Real Madrid which cost PSG a place in the Quater finals of UCL 2022.
He has so far taken 132 penalties in his career and scored 102 of them, a conversion rate of 77 per cent with him the only player to miss two penalties till date in the FIFA World Cup.
FIFA World Cup 2022: Twitter Reacts on Lionel Messi’s penalty miss
Fans have not spared a chance to criticize Messi for a crucial spot-kick error.
Shame on you VAR & FIFA. Giving the softest penalty in the World to try let Argentina and Lionel Messi through the World Cup. Disgraceful Decision. Never a Penalty in a Million Years. And Lionel Messi still missed. They tried to help you and you failed. You are not the GOAT Pessi pic.twitter.com/vOOp9PpnAP
— AzM (@CFCAzM) November 30, 2022
The PR messi gets is insane, even the post match analyst just totally ignored the fact that he eventually missed the penalty, if that was Ronaldo they would have criticized him
— ojayโ (@ojaystixx4real) December 1, 2022