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Wouldn't say he lets the team down at all but Henry is well known for never scoring in a final and only being exceptional in home games. Henry scored more than double the goals at home than away in the premier league. Great for the Arsenal home fans though, basically guaranteed a goal!

Lukaku..Mount..Bruno Fernandes

Sterling

Lukaku

World Cup CR7

Bruno Miguel Borj Fernanj is the number one answer

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Morons who say Messi and Ronaldo are in the top percentile of the most stupid football fans. How idiot can you be to think two obviously best players of more than the recent past, have been only good against weaker oppositions? Really, how little do these player-fans use their brains when observing matches, thinking about it and coming up with this absolutely idiotic bs about the highest level of individual skill they ever witnessed and still were too thick in the head to understand it.

I’m huge Lewandowski fan but he usually underperforms against big club/national teams.

Benhrama at West Ham

The opposite would be bernardo silva

Players playing well against weaker opposition and worse against equal/stronger opposition isn't exactly a strange phenomena

Lewy. Apart from that 4 vs Real, I can't remember a match against a big team where he was the difference maker.

Except qualifiers against Slovakia or Armenia are not bigger games than Serie A vs Inter, Juventus or AC Milan

De Bruyne

Messi if he didn’t get the referees help.

A few years ago I saw a state how many times Ronaldo and Messi scored when their team were down in the CL. Ronaldo had 20+, Messi 4.

Downvote me now for sharing that.

Messi at PSG

Edit* lol @ the downvotes, yeah I bet messi performed against all the big teams when he was in France

Suarez for periods at Liverpool is the one as a fan that sticks in my mind, but it was only certain seasons IIRC

And of course Origi was the inverse of this

Maybe a player like Harry Kane. It seems like he can score a bunch goals versus mediocre teams, but then when he plays against a good team like France, he doesn't do anything.

Can I say every Man Utd player?

Manchester united captain

Alot of players do this, I would say probably Odegaard, no offense to him but excluding Newcaslte last year he's been a ghost

'Eddie Nketiah."

Bruno Fernandez.

Just because he doesn't show up for Italy doesn't mean he isn't a Serie A golden boot winner. His consistency with Lazio even now is why Sarri has had the space to turn Lazio into a team that finishes consistently around the top 4. He is the best Italian striker of his generation.

Lukaku is definitely the answer here

Bruno fernandes

Haaland

Most footballers fall in this category.

Don't you just love it when a cool thread turns into messi fc vs Ronaldo fc

Lewandowski for sure

David De Gea was the worst for this. Any time he played in a big competition or in a game that was actually important he'd usually fall apart or make a mistake.

Bruno fernandes

As a united fan its frustraiting

messi in ucl how do u fumble 3-0 in aggregate

Lewandowski

Post Barcelona Neymar.

On Psg, never played very well on champions most important matches. On Brazil, was never great vs the good teams. Injured vs Germany on 2014 and didnt even shot the penalty vs Croacia on Qatar. Also known for not doing anything vs Argentina.

Rashford

Lewandowski, he scores a lot of goals sure but never saw him in big accusations other than that one game against madrid in 2013.

Edit: upon further research i discovered that in his bayern munich time he played 13 matches against real madrid(4), psg(3), barcelona(3), liverpool(2), atletico madrid(2) and only scored 3 goals. So downvote all you want because he clearly never showed up when needed the most. :)

Messi in UCL after 2011

eddie nketiah, goes missing when we need him

It has to be Higuain.

He was easily a top 5 striker in his prime every time his team wasn't playing a big game.

Neymar

Lukaku

Manchester United

I Will say lewandowski and Zlatan

Haaland is still young but I think he can do much more against big teams, last season in the 5 most important matches for city, he didn’t do anything ( 2 semi vs madrid, final against inter, final cup, arsenal second game)

Also I will say Messi after 2015 was not the big game player he was before even if of course Messi in a big game player but 2016-21 he was not that clutch, he even go 9 matchs against real without a goal or assist. Compares to Messi 2009-12 where he was doing masterclass after masterclass in champions league and Classico, he had period of 5 years where he had not that much of big games performances appart of the one against Madrid in 2017 and Liverpool in 2019, but even those games were useless.

odegaard has a way of being the critical part of our cutback-style team goals, which mostly happen against teams who lose the midfield battle, but if the open space isn't there and the other midfield has the discipline/presence, he isn't really able to contribute and also has less opportunities to score

i wouldn't categorize it purely on a bad team/big team basis, performances are a variable too

Haaland

Haaland is trending that way, sad to say

Zlatan , overated statpadder

Close your eyes then point at a player in Man Utd's squad. That one