The 11-metre duel
PenaltyBattle
Pick a taker. Pick a keeper. The odds come from their real career statistics — then you shoot, and chance decides.
🇫🇷 France★★★☆☆65/80 scoredraw 81%adjusted 81%
🇮🇹 Italie★★★★☆1.96 mconcedes 45/62raw 73%adjusted 75%
Shootout : 0 shot
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 Mbappé | Statistic | Gianluigi Donnarumma |
|---|---|---|
| 80 | Penalties | 62 |
| 81% | Raw rate | 73% |
| 81% | Adjusted rate | 75% |
| 75.0% | Head to head | 25.0% |
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
- Matt Le Tissier94% · 45 pen.
- Harry Kane88% · 123 pen.
- Bruno Fernandes88% · 75 pen.
- Robert Lewandowski87% · 101 pen.
- Hakan Çalhanoğlu87% · 62 pen.
Matt Le Tissier missed a single penalty in his entire career.
The lottery
- Antoine Griezmann69% · 39 pen.
- Lautaro Martínez73% · 28 pen.
- Vinicius Junior74% · 19 pen.
- Ousmane Dembélé78% · 11 pen.
- Zinédine Zidane77% · 15 pen.
Messi converts 77.3% of his 150 penalties, while the field average is 81.4%.
The walls
- Diego Alves66% · 71 pen.
- Gianluigi Buffon76% · 117 pen.
- Gianluigi Donnarumma75% · 62 pen.
- Mike Maignan77% · 71 pen.
- Wojciech Szczesny79% · 96 pen.
Even the best concede nearly three penalties out of four. That's the job.
The sieves
- Ederson88% · 64 pen.
- Hugo Lloris89% · 117 pen.
- Peter Schmeichel86% · 37 pen.
- Edwin van der Sar87% · 56 pen.
- David Raya85% · 47 pen.
Ederson concedes 9 penalties out of 10: the worst record of the field.
What the numbers actually say
81.4%
of penalties end up in the net. Measured on the 1,720 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.