Who are the best Premier League penalty takers in the history of the competition? We look at who best handled the pressure of spot kicks and see who failed to convert from the penalty spot in the Premier League.
The only player to record 100% penalties in the Premier League
Well, at least the number of players in the tournament with at least 10 penalties. If presented as a quiz question, most people would choose Matt Le Tissier as their guess. error.
The honor is held by the former Manchester City midfielder and dominant powerhouse. Yaya Toure. The Ivory Coast star may have lost his cool when he wasn’t given a birthday cake for his 31st birthday, but he certainly kept his cool temperament out of the penalty spot.
He has taken 11 penalties in the Premier League and scored on all of them. The next player with the most penalties and 100% conversion rate is Dimitar Berbatov (9 vs 9).
Seven of Toure’s 11 Premier League penalty kicks turned out to be the game-winning goals, with five leading his Manchester City side.
Matt Le Tissier missed a penalty
No, it’s not a conspiracy. He may have scored his 25 penalties in the Premier League, but Matt Le Tissier Missed a spot kick in the competition. The only man to have saved a Premier League penalty taken by Le Tissier – Mark Crossley at Nottingham Forest in March 1993.
That penalty save was also important – Forest secured a 2-1 away win at Dell that day, a 72nd minute game.
It was Le Tissier’s third penalty as a Premier League player after scoring two in the competition. He never missed England’s top flight again, his next 23 goals successfully breaking past the opposition goalkeeper.
The Guernsey-born forward has forced Nottingham Forest to pay a saved penalty against them.He has scored the next four penalties against them in the Premier League.
best of the rest
Danny Murphy Scoring on 18 of 19 penalties in the Premier League (95%). It was his only failure for Fulham at Manchester City in April 2008. competition. However, he scored from the rebound to equalize for Fulham before winning 3-2 and earning his three crucial points in the Premier League’s fight for survival in the league (eventually A battle won).
Julian Dix (15/16) and James Beatty (16/17) both have scored in 94% of penalties in the Premier League.
Dix’s penalty technique played in Power’s favor, but it wasn’t enough to make them 100% in the Premier League. David Seaman saved a penalty for West Ham in his February 1996 win against Arsenal.
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Of the players who scored at least 20 goals in the Premier League, only Luka Milivojevic (79%) scored more from penalties (all for Crystal Palace) than Dicks (63%). .
Beatty’s only mistake was against Everton against Charlton Athletic in January 2006, when Thomas Maia locked him out at Goodison Park. The mistake was due to the Premier League’s only penalty taken in the first ten minutes (08:09) of the game.
Newcastle United striker with at least 10 penalties among current Premier League players Callum Wilson (92%) are the best out of the spot, missing only 1 out of 13 games. That mistake came in August 2018 at Bournemouth against Cardiff his City, where Neil Etheridge beat Wilson’s 100% record as goalkeeper.
Thierry Henry Although we never saw a Premier League penalty saved, he still missed two of the 25 penalties taken in the competition. was due to hitting the post against two of the three Finnish goalkeepers playing in the Premier League (Jussi Jaaskelainen and Antti Niemi). end? he made it Finnish? he couldn’t
Four players with 10 or more penalties in the Premier League have a 91% success rate: the current Aston Villa striker Danny Ings, Leighton Bainesformer Chelsea defender Frank Leboeuf and second half Gary SpeedOf the three, Baines took the most penalties (22). That’s twice as much for him as Ings, Speed and Leboeuf (11). His first Premier League penalties His misses were against Manchester United and David De Gea in October 2014, breaking the record of scoring each of his 14 first penalties in the competition.
Other current Premier League stars are just outside the gang with over 90% penalty success rates. Harry Kane He has scored 30 of his 34 penalties in the Premier League with an 88% success rate. Mohamed Salahhave scored 18 of 20 penalties (90%) in the Premier League.ever green James Milner Having won 89% (17/19) of penalties taken in the Premier League, he has the exact same record as the current Arsenal manager. Mikel Arteta (17/19 – 89%).
Quirky Penalty Record Facts
Not surprisingly, the Premier League record goalscorer Alan Shearer He is the player with the most penalty goals scored in the competition (56) and the most in the Premier League (67). Frank Lampard (43), Steven Gerrard (32), Harry Kane (30) and Mark Noble (28) behind Shearer in the Premier League penalty goals rankings.
Only three players in the Premier League have missed 10 or more penalties. Alan Shearer (11), England’s all-time top scorer Wayne Rooney (11) and Teddy Sheringham (Ten).
Harry Kane He has scored 7 of 30 penalties against Arsenal in the Premier League (23.3%). Alan Shearer7 against Everton (he also missed 1 – 7/8).
petite brazilian from middlesbrough Juninho He may have been one of the most popular players in the club’s history, but he wasn’t very good at penalties. Worst penalty in tournament history he salutes one of his takers. Premier League No player in the history of the league has committed as many penalties (4) without scoring a single goal. Paul Merson (3) and Mike Newell But it came close (3).
The former Liverpool midfielder has scored the most goals in the Premier League, all on penalties Jan Morby (7), the player who has scored the most Premier League goals without penalties Les Ferdinand (149 goals).
Three different players have given penalties to four different clubs in the Premier League. Teddy Sheringham (Spurs, Manchester United, West Ham, Portsmouth), Darren Bent (Sunderland, Charlton, Aston Villa, Spurs) and Yakubu (Middlesbrough, Portsmouth, Blackburn and Everton) hold that record.
applause thanks to both Bobby Zamora When Obafemi MartinsThese two players are the only two players to have scored Premier League penalties with both right and left foot, showing extreme confidence. Zamora also took penalties twice in this competition, just 10 months behind him. Martins committed a total of four penalties, with each foot he had two, and with his right and left foot he scored one and missed one.
Who are the worst penalty takers in the Premier League?
Juan Pablo Angel The worst penalty taker in Premier League history and a player who has been penalized at least 10 times in the competition. He managed to score only half (5) of his 10 penalties for Aston at his Villa between October 2001 and his October 2006.
The Colombian striker scored four goals in his first five games but missed four in his last five – two of them in the same game against Fulham in February 2005, with Edwin van der Searle saves both penalties in just five minutes, 44 seconds. Ángel paid for Craven He had already taken a 55th-minute lead at the cottage but Lee He paid for the two mistakes as Clarke scored the equalizer in stoppage time for the Whites. .
Angel is one of only three players to have missed two penalties in a single Premier League match. Darren Bent Sunderland v Tottenham, April 2010 (3 wins, 2 losses) side berahino West Brom against Watford in April 2016 (missing both penalties).
steed mulblanc When Dwight York Both have missed four of the ten penalties they have received in the Premier League. Kevin Phillips Only scored 61% of his penalties in the competition (11/18).As seen by Manchester United fans Paul Pogba Missed four of the 11 penalties he has taken for the club in the Premier League – before handing over responsibility to either Bruno Fernandes or Cristiano Ronaldo – what he may have taken last in the competition. Including – against Wolves in August 2019.
Of the 29 players with 20 or more penalties in the Premier League, Michael Owen He has the worst success rate from the penalty spot, scoring only 14 of his 21 spot kicks in top flight.
current premier league pairs Riad Mahrez (12/18 – 67%) and Wilfried Zaha (7/11 – 64%) Both are among the top 10 worst Premier League penalty takers in the history of the competition.
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