It's like finding that good-looking fella at school's one weakness and then telling it to every girl that ever talks about him.
"Ah, but you should see the state of the way he ties his laces."
Lionel Messi is one of the finest footballers ever. Honestly. We've checked and he is.
But penalties are his kryptonite. He's shit at them.
And not even by his own ludicrously high standards. He's just terrible at them in general and he would've been taken off duties long ago if it wasn't for the fact that he is Lionel Messi.
Would you tell Lionel Messi that he's not hitting them anymore?
Barca won their first league game tonight against Athletic Bilbao thanks to Luis Suarez but Messi failed to open his account for the new season when he sloppily saw his first half penalty batted away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mH-UPEm56Y
And it took his already poor record to new heights.
https://twitter.com/TheCatalanGiant/status/635506193570615296
Rickie Lambert, by comparison, has missed three.
But Rickie Lambert can nail a penalty in fairness. Messi's record just doesn't stack up too well in general.
https://twitter.com/FourFourTweet/status/635516480235433984
We're not great at maths, but he is missing over half of them now on average.
https://twitter.com/caughtoffside/status/635498426520764416
But, hey, we know why he is doing it.
It's because he loves us.
https://twitter.com/JohnBennettBBC/status/635515848669687808
