Fair enough, his stats in La Liga must be better than in other comps. Anyway, considering Neymar and Suarez have hardly shone at them when he lets them take them I’ve no problem with him remaining number 1.

Well, as you can see, Neymar and Suarez can miss them too. Messi’s scored 86% of his penalties in La Liga since 2009. Not fantastic but I wouldn’t put him as a horrible penalty taker. I mean, Ronaldo is at 90%. Not a gigantic difference and he’s renowned as a great penalty taker.

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Messi has missed his share of penalties through the years. This season it seems to be the case that if Messi hasn’t already scored then he’ll take it. If he’s already scored (like he had today) he hands it to Neymar to take. Neymar has missed a few lately so today he gave it to Suarez to take.