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After a staggering 25 misses, a message to Pep Guardiola's penalty flops: Watch Ivan Toney! How studying Brentford star can help stop Man City’s struggles from the spot

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.