Salah has a penalty problem at Liverpool - who could replace him? (2023)

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Who takes Liverpool penalties? ›

While Liverpool have only received one penalty in the Premier League this season, it's a debate that must be held. Liverpool are blessed with several great strikers of the ball but only three of the current squad are top-notch penalty-takers. Those three are none other than Mohamed Salah, Fabinho, and James Milner.

Klopp couldn't bear to watch as Salah - who previously missed a penalty against Bournemouth - placed the ball down, and then smashed his effort off target. And German boss Klopp - facing the crowd in nervous anticipation - didn't appear to realise and video footage shows that he thought his team had scored.

Other current Premier League stars are just outside the >90% gang for penalty success. Harry Kane has scored 30 of his 34 Premier League penalties, with a success rate of 88%, while Mohamed Salah's scored 18 of his 20 Premier League penalties (90%).

There have been 22 penalties taken by Mohamed Salah in the Premier League with Liverpool and, with today's, three missed (in 2017 against Huddersfield, in 2021 against Leicester were the other two and one more against Bournemouth a few weeks ago).

Ledio Pano (50+)

Midfielder Ledio Pano is one of the only players in football history to take over 40 penalties and score every single one of them. The likes of Herea can be debated with a lack of official data, while players like Rickie Lambert and Le Tissier ended up missing towards the end of their careers.

Salah opted for a softer technique on this occasion but it did not succeed as he rolled a low shot wide of Aaron Ramsdale's goal. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp had decided, perhaps due to superstition, not to watch Salah's penalty.

Salah has now scored more goals against the Red Devils (12) than he has against any other opponent, averaging a goal every game. Manchester City is his joint-second favorite opponent (10 goals), though he's faced Pep Guardiola's side much more often (18 times).

Which player has the most goals without penalties? ›

As a result, Messi has now scored 672 goals without penalties during his professional career.

James holds the record for keeping the most clean sheets in the Premier League with 169. In his 572 appearances, the English goalkeeper conceded just 179 goals. He also holds the record for saving the highest number of penalties in the league with 13, having faced 63 penalties in total.

Steven Gerrard

Gerrard is the player to have scored the most penalties in Liverpool's history.

The Southampton Legend Matt Le Tissier has to be the best ever penalty taker of all time. He had an incredible record and still remains one of the greatest penalty record in the history of football. He had a conversion rate of over 95% which was truly remarkable.

Without penalties, Sir Bobby Charlton will be England's top scorer. The Manchester United legend scored 49 goals in 106 appearances for the Three Lions, with just three coming from the penalty spot.

Gary Lineker never received a yellow or red card. It's one of those amazing statistics in football that you struggle to believe is real, but alas, the legendary England striker managed to stay out of the referee's book across a professional career spanning 1978 to 1994.

Cristiano Ronaldo holds the record for scoring the most penalty goals in football history. The Man United forward has found the back of the net 145 times from the spot.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the most successful player when it comes to scoring from the penalty spot in the 21st century. Out of the 819 goals the Al-Nassr player scored so far in his career, 146 came from penalties.

Sophus Nielsen, the player with most goals in an Olympics single match. Goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert, scored a hat-trick of penalties in 1999.

The accolade for the most penalties taken with a 100% success rate is held by former Manchester City midfielder and dominant powerhouse, Yaya Touré. The Ivorian star might have lost his cool about not being given a birthday cake for his 31st birthday, but he certainly held a cool temperament from the penalty spot.

Who is the free kick king of football? ›

Mohamed Salah Rating is 89. His potential is 89 and his position is RW. He is 30 years old from Egypt and playing for Liverpool in the England Premier League (1). Mohamed Salah FIFA 23 has 4 Skill moves and 3 Weak Foot, he is Left-footed and his workrates are High/Med.

Mohamed Salah to score first at 4/1 could be a prove to be a wise bet.

Offences for which the penalty kick is awarded

any of the following offences against an opponent, if committed in a manner considered by the referee to be careless, reckless or using excessive force: charges. jumps at. kicks or attempts to kick.

Mohamed Salah's Rating on FIFA 23 Ultimate Team: 94 overall.

On FIFA 23 Ultimate Team, Mohamed Salah is one of the highest rated players in the game with an overall rating of 94. He has an amazing offensive output; a 93 pace, 94 dribbling, 92 shooting and 89 passing.

1. Samir Handanovic - 38 penalties saved.

Samir Handanovic

. He tops the list of the most penalty saves by goalkeepers. The Inter Milan star and captain has saved a record 38 penalties during his professional career and this is not the end.

The 24-year-old forward achieved the rare feat by sending goalkeeper Sage Stephens the wrong way three times in the space of 11 minutes either side of half-time.

Which 3 players have scored 100 goals without a penalty? ›

In April 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo became the most recent player to reach 100 goals. Six of the 33 players accomplished the feat without scoring a penalty – Sadio Mané, Peter Crouch, Emile Heskey, Les Ferdinand, Andy Cole, and Ryan Giggs.

Given only six players in the game's history have kicked 1000 goals in their career, former Docker, Cat and Blues defender Stephen O'Reilly holds a record related to the milestone that is unlikely to be matched.

#1 Juan Pablo Angel (50%)

With 16 goals to his name in the 2003-04 season, he finished as the club's top goal-scorer. Angel made 175 Premier League appearances, scoring 44 goals and registering 14 assists. In the process, the Colombian forward managed to score five out of 10 penalties with a success rate of just 50%.

At the time of writing, his 100-percent penalty-conversion rate is amongst the most talked-about runs in football. The 22-year-old has realistically played a third of his professional career and is still to miss from 12 yards. The responsibility of taking penalty kicks is an important one.

Argentina have won the most World Cup penalty shootouts, winning five of the six shootouts they've been involved with. Both Germany and Croatia hold 100% records, having won all four of their World Cup penalty shootouts.

No player is allowed to take a second kick until all other eligible players on their team have taken a first kick, including the goalkeeper.

Yaya Toure has taken 16 penalties in official competitive games, and has not missed a SINGLE one. Quite astonishing.

Which player never scored a goal? ›

1. Andrew Cole – 1993/94 – 34 goals excluding penalties (40 games) – Top of the tree is former Newcastle striker Andrew Cole, who bagged a record 34 league goals in the '93/94 season, none of which came from the penalty spot. That year, Cole played 40 out of 42 league matches, boasting a goals-per-game record of 0.85.

Only players who were on the pitch during the final whistle of the second half of extra time can take part in the penalty shootout. Even the goalkeeper can take penalty kicks.

The referee tosses a coin to decide the goal at which the kicks are taken. The choice of goal may be changed by the referee for safety reasons or if the goal or playing surface becomes unusable. The referee tosses the coin a second time to determine which team takes the first kick.

How often do Liverpool concede goals from penalties at Anfield? Not very. In fact the last time they conceded a goal from 12 yards out at Anfield was against Everton in a 2-0 home defeat in February 2021, Gylfi Sigurdsson's late spot-kick wrapping up the three points.

On 11 August 2020, Tsimikas signed for Liverpool on a deal for reported fee of £11.75 million. He became just the second Greek footballer to become a Liverpool player after Sotirios Kyrgiakos who joined the club from AEK Athens in 2009.

Morton made his first team debut in a pre-season friendly in July 2021 against Wacker Innsbruck, followed by his competitive debut for the Liverpool first team as a second-half substitute on 21 September 2021 in an EFL Cup match against Norwich City.

Who takes the best penalties? ›

Always the most effective penalty takers are those who feel in complete control of the ball and where it goes. The players who feel as if it is all a lottery are more likely to miss than to score. Most tellingly, however, is that they are also more likely to miss than for the keeper to save the shot.

The coach usually decides who will take a penalty kick for the team before the game begins. The player chosen is often someone who has confidence, accuracy, and experience taking penalty kicks. The penalty takers are usually the strikers.

Even if a substitution opportunity arises because of caution, disqualification or injury, the substitute may not take the penalty kick. Under the laws of the game, there are no such restrictions. (Note: some youth leagues modify rules regarding when a substitution may occur.) Any player may take the penalty kick.

Former Manchester United star David Beckham currently holds the record for scoring the most direct free kicks in Premier League history. Across an illustrious career with the Red Devils, Beckham netted 18 free kicks which helped his side to win six top-flight English titles while he was at the club.

"Say Juninho Pernambucano's name, and the first response is likely to be, "Great free kicks." He was the greatest and most versatile free-kick taker there has ever been. Through his early years at Vasco da Gama and his eight-year stint at Lyon, Juninho developed his knuckleball technique.

The referee has full discretion on whether to allow a quick free kick, and all other rules on free kicks still apply. However, in taking a quick free kick the kicking team waives their entitlement to retake the kick if an opponent who was within 9.15 m (10 yards) intercepts the ball.