Where the most analyzed left foot in football sends the ball — every career penalty, by placement and outcome.
Across nineteen years Messi has stepped up 146 times, scored 113, and been denied 33 — a conversion rate of 77%, about the elite-league average for a high-volume taker.
Each mark is one penalty, plotted where it crossed the goal. ● scored · ✕ missed. Solid = verified (StatsBomb-measured or hand-tagged); hollow = estimated from video.
134 of 146 penalties have a known placement (83 verified, the rest video-estimated). The cloud sits low and to the corners — centre is rare, and the floor of the goal is where most of them live.
Share & conversion of on-target placements in the current selection (wide/over misses excluded). Conversion is over located penalties only — switch to Verified for the trustworthy split; the video estimates lean low-left.
Outcome and competition for all 146. Placement filled where known. Sort by any column.
| Date | Comp | Team | Opponent | Min | Result | Placement |
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Sources. Measured coordinates: StatsBomb open data (Messi La Liga, 2004/05–2020/21). Hand-verified + video-estimated placements built from match footage. Penalty log cross-checked with MessiStats, messivsronaldo.app, Transfermarkt. Estimated marks are coarse zone-level reads, not exact.