Despite being two of the players who score the most goals from penalties, both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have also failed many times. However, in the world, there are only two goalkeepers who have ever successfully blocked penalty shots from these two great superstars: Jan Oblak and Diego Alves.

Instead of classy handling or a mind-boggling penalty shootout, the focus of the EURO 2024 round of 1/8 match between Portugal and Slovenia belonged to Ronaldo’s tears when he missed the penalty kick. Goalkeeper Jan Oblak contributed greatly to helping Slovenia survive until the penalty shootout.

Jan Oblak defeated Ronaldo in the recent Portugal – Slovenia match.

And in the past, Oblak also blocked a penalty kick from Lionel Messi in the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey in 2015. Although he read Leo’s finishing intention very well, the Slovenian goalkeeper could not stop Leo’s penalty kick. Barcelona superstar at that time.

But Diego Alves is more annoying to CR7 than Oblak. While still playing for Almeria, Alves blocked a penalty kick from Ronaldo in the confrontation between the two teams in CR7’s first season in La Liga. After that, Karim Benzema scored and helped Real Madrid win 3-2.

The former Valencia goalkeeper continued to make CR7 “hate” two more times, in 2015 and 2017. It can be said that Alves is the cause of about 10% of missed penalties in the Portuguese superstar’s career. Portugal.

The Brazilian goalkeeper also “sorrowed” Lionel Messi when he denied the Argentine superstar a penalty kick in the 2012 King’s Cup semi-final.

In the international arena, Messi has a penalty kick success rate of up to 82.8% (24/29 shots taken). For Ronaldo, this number is 71.4% (20/28 results).