#UCLFantasy: Penalty takers
Sunday, September 10, 2017
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UEFA.com reveals who will be on spot-kick duty for all 32 teams, and who's Mr Reliable.
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Anderlecht: Sofiane Hanni (MF, €6.5m) will succeed the departed Youri Tielemans as regular taker despite missing Anderlecht's first spot kick of the season.
APOEL: Igor de Camargo (FW, €6.0m) took on penalty duties earlier this year, and has two goals from two kicks so far.
Atlético Madrid: Antoine Griezmann (FW, €10.0m) is Atlético's go-to man from the spot, despite missing more (three) than he scored for the Rojiblancos (two) last season.
Barcelona: Lionel Messi (FW, €12.0m) has a 79% success rate in the UEFA Champions League with 11 out of 14, and has only ever lost one club match in which he's missed a penalty.
Basel: Ricky Van Wolfswinkel (FW, €7.0m) has kept his cool to slot in 25 of 33 spot kicks taken in his professional career, including all three in European competition.
Bayern München: Robert Lewandowski (FW, €11.0m) converted all 15 of his penalties for club and country last season.
Benfica: Jonas (FW, €7.5m), Raúl Jiménez (FW, €7.0m); Jonas has missed one of his 25 career penalties, while Jimémez has registered 12 from 12.
Beşiktaş: Ricardo Quaresma (MF, €7.0m) has scored 15 of 18 career penalties, including all his last ten.
Celtic: Moussa Dembélé (FW, €6.5m) buried eight of his ten penalty kicks last season.
Chelsea: Eden Hazard (MF, €10.5m) boasts a worthy completion rate, the Belgian converting 11 of his 13 penalties since arriving in the Premier League in 2012.
CSKA Moskva: Bibras Natcho (MF, €6.0m) has rattled in six out of six from the penalty spot for CSKA since 2016/17.
Borussia Dortmund: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (FW, €11.0m) has scored 17 out of 22 career penalties.
Feyenoord: Nicolai Jørgensen (FW, €7.5m) has put away all ten career penalties, including the decider in the Dutch Super Cup penalty shoot-out this season against Vitesse.
Juventus: Paulo Dybala (FW, €9.5m) can pride himself on slotting in 17 out of his 18 career penalties.
Leipzig: Timo Werner (FW, €10.0m) begins the group stage having scored five out of his six career penalties.
Liverpool: Roberto Firmino (FW, €9.0m) converted Liverpool's only spot kick so far this season, although James Milner (MF, €6.0m) scored seven of his eight penalties in the league last term.
Manchester City: Sergio Agüero (FW, €10.5m) has buried 31 out of his 39 career penalties, while Yaya Touré (MF, €7.5m) has 15 out of 15.
Manchester United: Zlatan Ibrahimović (FW, €9.0m) has 69 out of 79 but is currently recovering from long-term injury, which means Romelu Lukaku (FW, €10.0m), with 11 out of 16 career penalties, or Juan Mata (MF, €8.5m), with ten from 14, should step in.
Maribor: Luka Zahović (FW, €5.5m) has three out of three penalties but is injured; his likely replacement, Dare Vršič (MF, €4.5m), has eight from 11.
Monaco: Radamel Falcao (FW, €9.5m) missed two penalties in last season's UEFA Champions League but has already scored one in Ligue 1 this term to go with four successes from as many attempts domestically last campaign. Fabinho (MF, €7.5m) has only ever missed one of his 17 penalties.
Napoli: Dries Mertens (FW, €10.0m) has put away 17 and missed four, with two goals and a miss last season. Jorginho (MF, €5.0m), however, scored against Nice in the play-offs.
Olympiacos: Kostas Fortounis (MF, €6.0m) has a perfect record of ten out of ten penalties converted since 2015.
Paris Saint-Germain: Edinson Cavani (FW, €11.0m) has scored 16 of his 18 penalties for Paris.
Porto: Yacine Brahimi (MF, €7.0m) has registered seven of his nine career penalties, including three for Porto.Qarabağ: Afran Ismayilov (MF, €5.5m) has scored 12 out of his 12 career spot kicks, while Rashad F. Sadygov (DF, €4.5m) has 11 from 12. Don't discount Richard Almeida (MF, €5.0m), who has missed only three career penalties.
Real Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo (FW, €12.0m) is the main man. Madrid's No7 hit seven from the penalty spot last season and will be on duty again this term.
Roma: Diego Perotti (MF, €8.5m) posted seven from seven last season and has 13 from 13 in his career.
Sevilla: Wissam Ben Yedder (FW, €7.5m) scored from the spot in the Liga and Copa del Rey last season plus twice in pre-season. Overall in his career, he has put away nine and missed two.
Shakhtar: Marlos (MF, €6.0m) registered Shakhtar's only penalty this season, taking his career spot-kick record to eight goals from ten attempts.
Spartak Moskva: Quincy Promes (MF, €7.0m) has scored all six penalties for Spartak since 2015/16.
Sporting: Bas Dost (FW, €8.5m) has put away 16 out of 17 career penalties, including eight for his current club.
Tottenham: Harry Kane (FW, €10.0m) converted five of his six spot kicks en route to being crowned Premier League top scorer last season.