Penalty Shootouts ... Surely a bug??

Can anyone else win a penalty shootout?? I think i've won once out of about 7 or 8 now and it's beginning to piss me off! It's not like my penalty takers are bad or anything I just know every time we head into penalties we are gonna lose!!

Edit - Just looked through my career (Sad, I know but it's bugging me!) and i've been in 7 penalty shootout's spanning my 3 clubs so far, I have won just once and lost six of them!!

I am in the year 2041 with AFC Telford. In the last few years we've become dominant domestically but not in Europe. It has been a great save. However, I'm genuinely getting wound up with penalty shoot outs and penalties in general. I can't seem to crack Europe without entering into at least one penalty shootout. As soon as I have a penalty shootout, despite how good my players stats are (specifically for pens), I know I am going to lose. Angers me so much!!!!

The problem isn't just in Europe up against big sides. Even if I get penalties against minnows in the FA cup, my players seem to miss 7 or 8 pens out of 10. I had one game against a League 2 club whilst I was in the Prem with the Prem's top goalscorer and in lethal form, where he missed 3 penalties in that game alone. 3 efffin penalties against a nobody team. Ludicrous!

I'm now at a stage in the game where my players are amongst the best in the world in almost every position. And yet, despite that, I rarely ever score a penalty. I've tried changing takers and it doesn't really improve things. In all the game years I've been playing I don't remember winning a single penalty shoot out. It's utterly infuriating. I have played every single version of Championship Manager and Football Manager since 98/99 and have never found penalties to be so ludicrously difficult to score. On the other hand, the opposition seems to net them all the time.

THIS HAS TO BE A BUG!!!

Nah, this is a bug-

Maybe, before cup games, change match preparation to attacking set pieces? I've not tried it, and I agree that penalty shoot outs are nigh-on impossible to win, but it's got to be worth a go

i can sympathise with this, i lost a ridiculous penalty shootout in another save by something stupid like 18-17, i thought it was never going to end, my team literally had about 8 chances to win the shootout but they kept on missing the crucial penalty, felt like it was scripted somehow but who knows, maybe it was just one of those days...

Penalties are ridiculous. If you have the chance to win you will always miss. PoM is the crossbar.

I have been at two different clubs in the past 18 months, had at least 3 different penalty takers all with key stats between 10-15 and have now had 8 penalties missed in a row. Any idea whether it's officially a bug, or just getting ignored?