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New Arsenal signing Granit Xhaka is the butt of the jokes for his miserable penalty

Published 17:22 25 Jun 2016 BST

Updated 17:36 25 Jun 2016 BST

Simon Lloyd
New Arsenal signing Granit Xhaka is the butt of the jokes for his miserable penalty

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It was a goal fit to win any game... except it didn't.

Stoke City's Xherdan Shakiri's acrobatic equaliser against Switzerland is one of the greatest goals ever seen in European Championships but was only enough to take them to a penalty shootout  - a penalty shootout they lost. The only man to fail with his penalty just happened to be Arsenal's big money new signing, Granit Xhaka who smashed his penalty wide of the post... way, way, way wide. https://twitter.com/GandziaPL/status/746743494480388100?lang=en In typically unsympathetic style, viewers took great delight in how fantastically bad the spot-kick was. https://twitter.com/ManUtds_News/status/746731253861355521 https://twitter.com/rziihussaini19/status/746731057978892289 https://twitter.com/_LFCJoel/status/746730831180337152 https://twitter.com/fabolous3d/status/746732885907021825 https://twitter.com/hptedder/status/746732830680580096 https://twitter.com/Undsolinho/status/746732824368136192 https://twitter.com/360Sources/status/746731424171044864 Arsenal fans weren't too fussed though... https://twitter.com/HODGSON_1/status/746732737294385153 With Switzerland's early exit, Gooners can expect to see their new man report for preseason a little earlier than he'd planned. Just don't expect him to be handed the penalty duties any time soon. SNAPCHAT

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New Arsenal signing Granit Xhaka is the butt of the jokes for his miserable penalty