📸 Mbappé does a Messi: the WORST penalty at this World Cup

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9 July 2026

Superstars

Lionel Messi

and Kylian Mbappé are, without any doubt, having an absolutely outstanding

World Cup

. Only from the penalty spot, things still have not quite gone to plan.

Messi, who leads the scoring charts with eight goals, has already missed two penalties. And Mbappé, who has scored seven times, now also seems to have been infected by the penalty-virus.

In the quarter-final against

Morocco

, the French superstar had a huge chance to make it 1-0 after 28 minutes. Noussair Mazraoui had brought him down in the penalty area moments earlier.

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Thursday, 9 July 2026

Mbappé, who had to wait an unusually long time before taking the kick, clearly felt the pressure. His effort, as harmless as it was poorly placed, was easily caught by penalty-saving specialist Yassine Bounou.

Of the many poorly taken penalties at this

, that may well have been the worst...

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