Published On 27/10/2025
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Polish goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny, Barcelona goalkeeper, included French star Kylian Mbappé, Real Madrid player, to his list of victims of major stars who failed to score on penalty kicks.
Yesterday, Sunday, Szczesny prevented Mbappé from scoring Real Madrid’s third goal in El Clásico, which was held at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium for the tenth round of the Spanish League, after he saved a penalty kick in the first minutes of the second half.
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Barcelona goalkeeper Szczesny is a star conqueror of penalty kicks
Referee Cesar Soto Grado awarded a penalty kick for Real Madrid after a handball on Barcelona defender Eric Garcia, but Szczesny was on time and blocked Mbappe’s shot with a wonderful clearance, keeping his team’s hope of returning with the score (1-2), but that did not happen.
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LALIGA Highlights in EL CLASICO! pic.twitter.com/Sj5NG9Xrx8
— LALIGA English (@LaLigaEN) October 26, 2025
This is not Szczesny’s first penalty kick save for top-class stars, as he previously did so with stars Lionel Messi, the American player for Inter Miami, and Neymar da Silva, the current player for Santos.
When he was a player in Roma, Szczesny (35 years old) prevented Neymar from scoring from the penalty spot, in the Wolves match against Barcelona in the group stage of the Champions League competition in the 2015-2016 season.
This happened on November 24, 2015, in the match that took place at Camp Nou for the fifth round.
That day, Neymar stepped forward to take a penalty kick, which he shot with his right foot, but Szczesny blocked it brilliantly, but the ball bounced to the Brazilian Adriano, who returned it to the net.
On the international level, Szczesny was able to save a penalty kick taken by Messi during the match between Argentina and Poland in the group stage of the 2022 World Cup finals, which was held in the State of Qatar.
The two teams met on November 30, 2022, at Stadium 974, in the third and final round for Group C.
At that time, Messi sent the ball towards the left side, and Szczesny stretched out and was able to block it brilliantly, so the score remained at a goalless draw.
🇵🇱🛑 When Szczesny denied Messi from the spot!#FIFAWorldCup pic.twitter.com/8bF4CInrnh
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) March 27, 2025
What is striking is that all of these saves came in matches that Szczesny’s teams lost, and were as follows:
- Barcelona 6-1 Roma.
- Poland 0-2 Argentina.
- Real Madrid 2-1 Barcelona.
It is noteworthy that Szczesny saved 21 penalty kicks during his career, according to the Spanish newspaper “AS”.