Bundesliga: Wout Weghorst ends the series of penalties with a miss

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Disappointed Weghorst (center): A goal scored, a penalty awarded

Photo: Swen Pförtner / dpa

Do you remember the 31st matchday of last season?

Specifically: the game between Werder Bremen and SC Paderborn?

Back then, Werder attacker Milot Rashica caused an event that had not happened in the Bundesliga until this Sunday: he missed a penalty.

An unbelievable 35 penalty kicks in a row, 27 of them this season, had been converted in the Bundesliga since then.

According to the statisticians of the sports information service, there should never have been such a series.

She came into focus on this match day with seven penalty kicks that were given on Saturday.

Again everyone was transformed.

But then came the 84th minute of Sunday's game between Wolfsburg and Hoffenheim.

Then Wout Weghorst took the penalty kick for VfL, he could have made it 3-0 for his team.

But the attacker, who had already scored that day, shot the ball next to the goal.

That ended the series.

Curious: It was Weghorst who started the penalty series last season.

On matchday 31, he hit the point in a 2-2 draw against Freiburg in the 27th minute.

Eight minutes earlier, Rashica had missed his penalty chance.

Two misses in ten minutes

The subject of the penalty kick even got another punchline in the Wolfsburg game against Hoffenheim: Hoffenheim was awarded a penalty in stoppage time.

And you probably already guessed it: Munas Dabbur failed too.

Casteels parried the attempt and secured Wolfsburg victory.

Speaking of penalty series: Union Berlin's attacker Max Kruse, who converted all of his 16 penalties, secured a personal record.

In the win against Bielefeld there was one more.

The 32-year-old set the record for Jochen Abel, who hit the point 16 times for Bochum and Schalke in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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