The 11-metre duel

PenaltyBattle

49 takers, 30 keepers — real down to the goalie's height. Build your duel, aim at a zone of the goal, switch on shootout pressure, read the impact maps of real penalties… then shoot: the odds come from career statistics, and chance decides. Share the match poster in one click.

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Kylian Mbappé

🇫🇷 France65/80 scoredraw 81%adjusted 81%

VS
Gianluigi Donnarumma

🇮🇹 Italie1.96 mconcedes 45/62raw 73%adjusted 75%

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Shootout : 0 shot

75.2%18.3%6.4%

GoalKeeper saveOff target or woodwork

Confidence high — the smaller sample in this duel is 62 penalties. Below 12, a few points of difference mean nothing.

Marquee duels

Six match-ups worth your time — including two the statistics don't tell the way the legend does.

Tale of the tape

The raw numbers, and what is left of them once corrected for sample size.

Kylian MbappéStatisticGianluigi Donnarumma
80Penalties62
81%Raw rate73%
81%Adjusted rate75%
75.2%Head to head24.8%

The rankings

Ranked on what a player has proven, not his raw percentage. Cole Palmer scores 23 of 25, but 25 kicks cannot prove what 123 kicks prove: at comparable level, the bigger body of work ranks first.

Ice cold

  1. 1🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Matt Le Tissier94%45
  2. 2🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Rickie Lambert92%54
  3. 3🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Harry Kane88%123
  4. 4🇵🇹Bruno Fernandes88%75
  5. 5🇳🇱Ronald Koeman87%131

Matt Le Tissier missed a single penalty in his entire career.

The lottery

  1. 1🇨🇱Alexis Sánchez63%22
  2. 2🇫🇷Antoine Griezmann69%39
  3. 3🇦🇷Lautaro Martínez72%28
  4. 4🇧🇷Vinicius Junior74%19
  5. 5🇫🇷Paul Pogba76%18

Lionel Messi converts 77.3% of his 150 penalties, while the field average is 81.0%.

The walls

  1. 1🇧🇷Diego Alves66%71
  2. 2🇸🇮Samir Handanovič74%115
  3. 3🇮🇹Gianluigi Buffon76%117
  4. 4🇮🇹Gianluigi Donnarumma75%62
  5. 5🇫🇷Mike Maignan78%73

Even the best concede nearly three penalties out of four. That's the job.

The sieves

  1. 1🇧🇷Ederson88%64
  2. 2🇫🇷Hugo Lloris89%117
  3. 3🇳🇱Edwin van der Sar87%56
  4. 4🇩🇰Peter Schmeichel86%37
  5. 5🇪🇸David Raya85%47

Ederson concedes 9 penalties out of 10: the worst record of the field.

What the numbers actually say

81.0%

of penalties end up in the net. Measured on the 2,204 penalties faced by this field's keepers — a keeper doesn't choose his takers.

74%

of missed penalties are stopped by the keeper. The rest goes wide or hits the woodwork: nothing the keeper did.

77.3%

only, for Lionel Messi, over 150 penalties. The greatest player in history is, from twelve yards, an ordinary taker.