Juventus striker Cristiano Ronaldo is known to be one of the best penalty shooters in the world, but haters and fans of his opponents, especially Argentine Lionel Messi, call him "Benaldo", indicating that most of his goals that exceeded seven hundred came from penalty kicks, but what do you say The numbers, and does Ronaldo deserve this title?
When "Don" was asked about this title in 2015, his answer was straightforward: "You have to look at the statistics to learn how many goals you scored for Real Madrid and that most of them are not penalties."
To some extent, Ronaldo is right with what he said, and in a simple comparison between the best penalty kickers these days, it appears to us that Ronaldo paid 149 penalty kick, compared to 118 for Messi and 62 for the Brazilian Neymar Paris St Germain and 55 for the Belgian Eden Real Madrid striker Eden Hazard.
As for Zlatan Ibrahimovic - who is still playing football at a high level and he is 38 - he paid ninety penalties.
To be fair and arrive at a scientific evaluation, we have to compare the goals scored from the penalty kicks with the outcome of the goals that these players scored in their career so far:
Ronaldo scored 718 goals, including 124 penalty kicks, 17%.
Messi: 690 goals, including 91 penalty kicks, 13%.
Ibrahimovic: 475 goals, including 79 penalty kicks, 16%.
- Neymar: 305 goals, including 48 penalty kicks, 15.5%.
- Hazard: 161 goals, including 48 penalty kicks, 31%.
In sum, Messi is the lowest player whose goals came from penalty kicks, while Hazard deserves this title because the percentage of his goals from the penalty kick is very large compared to the four stars.