City's best-ever penalty taker? (any era)

[01cravend]

When yaya makes his first 20 penalties THEN and ONLY THEN can he be compared with Mario.

Yaya - 100% record
Balotelli - 87.5%

 

[holty41]

i saw Ken Barnes score a hat trick against Blackpool who had the Scotland goalkeeper at the time I think his name farmer

 

[tufty]

Had anyone said fowler.? Especially if its a really important one, perhaps is its against Middleborough and he has a good record of scoring pens with us *facepalm*

 

[petrusha]

Lee probably wins on the number scored. But did he ever miss?

James Lawton's 'Forever Boys' records Lee missing a penalty in a 2-1 defeat for City at home to Coventry in March 1973. The match was Joe Mercer's return to Maine Road after leaving the previous summer.

Fairy sure that I also read about him missing one other, in a goalless draw at Maine Road in the late sixties. IIRC, we were on a bad run at the time and the miss prevented us from claiming a much-needed win.

There may be one or two others I don't know of. However, I doubt there are many. Dennis Tueart, on the other hand, missed quite a few over his two spells with the club.

 

[Vienna_70]

Ballotelli was cool as a cucumber but YaYa was the one for me. I never doubted it hitting the back of the onion bag

Nor me.

I loved the way Mario took penalties for us, and of course, he never missed one in for City, but Yaya is the most reliable player I have seen in a Blue shirt.

At Wembley in '16, after Big Willy had saved those three spot kicks from the Scousers, and I saw Yaya walking up to take his, I was as certain as I could be that the League Cup was on its way back to Manchester.

 

[BlueAnorak]

James Lawton's 'Forever Boys' records Lee missing a penalty in a 2-1 defeat for City at home to Coventry in March 1973. The match was Joe Mercer's return to Maine Road after leaving the previous summer.

Fairy sure that I also read about him missing one other, in a goalless draw at Maine Road in the late sixties. IIRC, we were on a bad run at the time and the miss prevented us from claiming a much-needed win.

There may be one or two others I don't know of. However, I doubt there are many. Dennis Tueart, on the other hand, missed quite a few over his two spells with the club.

Cheers for that.
A time when stats were out really collected.
He probably should be near the top of the list as he must have taken 40+

 

[Sky Blue]

Peter Reid.

 

[radcliffe1309]

Franay every time

 

[davyhulme blue]

Peter Reid.

Didn’t he miss at elland rd ,think batty scored for them after a 4 year drought

 

[Vienna_70]

Why is Yaya a better choice over Mario?

Because Yaya scored more for us than Martio did?