The Barça has desaprovechado the half of the penaltis that has launched

Leo Messi has launched six penaltis this season with the Barça and only has annotated three. Neymar Neither hit the only that tried and Pedro, instead, transformed his. However, Luis Enrique has clear that the crack Argentinian will keep on being the first thrower of the team

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The Manchester City-Barça could be round if Leo Messi, author of a sublime party in the Etihad Stadium, had been hit in the launching of a penalti in injury time. The Argentinian could top his performance with a maximum penalty that he same caused. It had been the guinda of the cake and the Barça would have approached almost definitively to the quarter-finals.

But Messi failed the launching and even was desacertado when finishing of head very diverted the rechaze of Joe Hart when this already was beaten. It is not the first penalti that fails . Messi has transformed 46 penaltis of the 59 that has kicked with the Barça. Therefore, it accredits almost 80% of tarpaulin, but this season has failed 3 of 6.

Although in one of them, in front of the Athletic of Madrid took advantage of the refuse of the goalkeeper Oblak to mark, the average of tarpaulin goes down to 50%, so much regarding Messi as regarding the Barça, explaining that Neymar failed a penalti in the Glass in front of the Villarreal and that Pedro marked the one who launched, also in the Glass, against the Elche.

"Messi is our thrower"

With everything, Luis Enrique did not want to do a subject of the penaltis in the back press conference to the party. "The penaltis only fail them those that dare to throw them. Our thrower is, without place to doubts, Leo Messi", said the Asturian.