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REVEALED Buffon's 29 penalty saves
Beyond helping get his season on the right track after dreadful errors against Udinese and Spain, the 38-year-old’s save off Alexandre Lacazette’s spotkick also happened to be the 29th penalty he’s saved in his career in the course of a game.
Notice the previous caveat, which excludes the Carrara native’s double save from Kakhaber Kaladze and Clarence Seedorf in the 2003 Champions League final… in which Juventus fluffed three and had to settle for second place.
Ironically, Buffon would save a grand total of zero spot kicks against France in 2006… David Trezeguet hitting the bar enough to hand Italy her fourth World Cup. Life’s weird like that.
Anyway, onto the list...
1. Bierhoff: Udinese-Parma, December 1st 1996
2. Chapuisat: Borussia Dortmund-Parma, 5 November 1997
3. Moeller: Borussia Dortmund-Parma, 5 November 1997
4. Ronaldo: Parma-Inter, 8 March 1998.
5. Baggio: Parma-Inter, 6 January 1999
6. Ronaldo: Inter-Parma, 8 May 1999.
7. Di Napoli: Parma-Piacenza, 19 March 2000.
8. Mutu: Verona-Parma, 28 January 2001.
9. Totti: Parma-Roma, 4 February 2001. 10. Chiesa: Fiorentina-Parma, 11 February 2001.
11. Muzzi: Juventus-Udinese, 6 January 2002.
12. Ahn: South Korea-Italy, 18 June 2002.
13. Ferrante: Modena-Juventus, 17 November 2002.
14. Fiore: Lazio-Juventus, 3 May 2003.
15. Figo: Juventus-Real Madrid, 14 May 2003.
16. Baggio: Juventus-Brescia, 26 October 2003
17. Adailton: Genoa-Juventus, 1 December 2006.
18. Mutu: Italy - Romania, 13 June 2008.
19. Balszczykowski: Poland - Italy, 11 November 2011.
20. Hamsik: Napoli-Juventus, 20 November 2011.
21. Totti: Roma-Juventus, 12 December 2011.
22. Mifsud: Malta-Italy, 26 March 2013.
23. Calaiò: Genoa-Juventus, 16 March 2014. 24. Denis: Atalanta-Juventus, 27 September 2014.
25. Gonzalo Rodriguez: Juventus-Fiorentina, 29 April 2015.
26: Insigne: Juventus-Napoli, 23 May 2015.
27: Mandzukic: Croatia - Italy, 13 June 2015.
28: Kalinic: Fiorentina-Juventus, 24 April 2016.
29. Lacazette: Lione-Juventus, 18 October 2016.
