After the pleasure of winning their Champions League group on Tuesday, Manchester City fans had an all-too familiar question: why can’t our team score penalties?
Indeed, some supporters will have travelled at great expense to both Copenhagen and Dortmund this month only to leave with the same outcome — a 0-0 draw with Riyad Mahrez missing a spot-kick.
It was the fourth penalty the Algerian has missed for City. Remarkably, City have failed to score 25 of their 80 spot-kicks under Pep Guardiola, 10 more misses than the next biggest culprits in the Premier League in that time — Manchester United.