​Mauro Icardi and Kerem Akturkoglu wanted to emulate football legends like Johan Cruyff and Lionel Messi, but the penalty taken by the Galatasaray players will go down in the fans’ memory as one of the biggest misses of the year.

Mauro IcardiPhoto: Seskimphoto / Seskimphoto / Profimedia

Mauro Icardi, a big miss in the Turkish championship

In the 37th minute of the match with “Istanbulspor” (the third stage of the Super League), Aktürkoğlu fulfilled his task and passed to Icardi, but the Argentinian forward did not hit the goal, and the score remained 0:0.

Icardi took revenge in the 42nd minute when he scored the only goal of the match. Galata ranks first in the ranking with 16 points.

Almost 41 years ago, a similar penalty was taken by Johan Cruyff and Jesper Olsen, but in the match against Helmond Sport, Ajax players scored.

In 2016, Lionel Messi passed to Luis Suarez during Barcelona’s 6-1 win over Celta Vigo.

The Icardi-Aktürkoglu moment was more reminiscent of the stage in the game Arsenal – Manchester City (2005). Then Robert Pires missed a pass to Thierry Henry.