Real Madrid’s penalty kick situation: Should Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Jr. or Jude Bellingham be the taker?

Real Madrid had a chaotic game against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday and lost 1-0 (2-2 on aggregated) in the Champions League round of 16 seconds of leg, but they could continue thanks to Atletico Madrid Mististed one penalty and see Julian Alvarez’s Make erased due to a double hit on the ball after he has been assessed by VAR. Due to the 4-2 penalty shootout victory, Los Blancos will now go to the quarterfinals where they will be confronted against Arsenal in April Paramount+ To continue their march to Munich.

Although the final story was about criminal problems for Atleti, that was not the story in the regulations. With a chance to continue in regulation in the 69th minute, Kylian Mbappe won a fine for Real Madrid after a challenge from Clement Lenglet, but Vinicius Junior took the penalty, making it high and wide of Jan Oblak’s just before his first missed fine as a real Madrid player. Los Blancos has made fines with Vini this season. Jr, Mbappe and Jude Bellingham all try several. They have all had similar records for Madrid, but Ancelotti has essentially driven the hot hand with every taler until they missed it.

How did they do? Let’s look:

Real Madrid Penalty Statistics

A criminal rotation

In December, while he was confronted with Getafe, Real Madrid won a penalty and Mbappe was set to take it, but he then gave the ball to Bellingham whose finish would be true, which would pass David Soria in a final 2-0 victory. At that time, Mbappe was in a scoring routine, but still did not take the chance to find the back of the net.

After the game, Ancelotti Mbappe praised for his selflessness, but when the next chance came to the Frenchman with Athletic Bilbao, he would take it and missed the chance with Yulen Agrerezabala who saved the punishment. Bellingham would earn another chance against Valencia in January, but he was also missing, that put the next chance in the hands of Vini Jr.

A miss on the biggest stage

Opposite Jan Oblak is always a scary proposition for a penalty tone that can sometimes ensure that a player has too much too much and that is what with Vini Jr. has happened. He strived for the top 90 and missed that it was wide wide at a critical moment.

Where things escalated, it is Vini Jr. During extra time in the game, the 18-year-old Endrick was replaced, which removed him from the final penalty shootout that Real Madrid would win 4-2 with Antonio Rudiger who took the decisive punishment, even with Oblak who brought his hand to it. Endrick has never made a shot in the shootout and Real Madrid advanced, so everything is good that ends well, but if Ancelotti keeps his current rotation of customers, it would mean that the next Up Mbappe is.

He did not take it for Real Madrid in 2025, but after taking 59 during his career for Club and County, which means that 47 of them (79.7%) will be ready for the next chance that comes in his way, regardless of what the opportunity is. After all, he converted three penalties in the World Cup Final 2022 for France.