BERNARDO SILVA’S shootout shocker was labelled “the worst penalty ever” as Manchester City exited the Champions League in the most agonising way possible.
Real Madrid reached the semi-finals with a 4-3 win on spot-kicks after a 1-1 draw at the Etihad meant a 4-4 aggregate stalemate.
And fans focused on Bernardo’s “ridiculously bad” penalty – a tame sidefoot chip straight down the middle into the arms of Andriy Lunin.
The possible Panenka attempt was more like the type of effort that players use to warm-up stoppers before matches – rather than a key moment in one of the biggest games of the season.
Lunin also dived to thwart sub Mateo Kovacic’s spot-kick – both City’s failures coming after Real’s Luka Modric fluffed his penalty.
Ex-Chelsea defender Antonio Rudiger then tucked home the hosts’ clincher
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Bernardo’s woe was compared to an iconic failure from the spot by then-Stamford Bridge winger Pat Nevin in 1984 – ironically against City.
Nevin, now a pundit, barely took a run-up before he trickled the ball down the middle to keeper Alex Williams.
“Worst” was a popular word as viewers piled in to slate Bernardo’s kick.
“That is the worst penalty I have seen with my own eyes,” said one fan.
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Another called it “the worst penalty I have ever seen in my entire life”.
And a third demanded official recognition for the Portuguese midfielder.
He posted: “Bernardo Silva deserves a Guinness World Record for the worst penalty of all time.”
Other observers called the spot-kick “awful” and “unbelievable”.
And one fan claimed City deserved to lose just because of that one spot-kick”.
But another viewer went against the tide as he wrote: “If he scored y’all would be shouting Panenka up and down.”
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
