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The World Cup schedule has entered the quarter-final stage, and in the early morning beijing time, Brazil lost 1:2 to Belgium. At this point, Brazil's World Cup journey is over and Neymar's total goals are fixed at 2.
But like his king-level performance in this World Cup, his more than 40 "falls" on the pitch have also attracted widespread attention from fans around the world.
The Wall Street Journal analyzed Brazil's first four World Cup matches, paying special attention to Neymar's fall data, from a different perspective, and summarized the world-class star's performance in this World Cup.
Let's take a look at Neymar's wrestling moves. As the meme emperor widely circulated in the circle of friends, Neymar's "falling to the ground" is like this:
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Before the match against Mexico began, Mexican coach Juan Carlos Osorio had previously made a criticism of the fake fall on the pitch: "It's a shame for football, there shouldn't be so many performances on the football pitch. ”
But everyone knows that he is talking about Neymar.
In the following game, Mexico lost 0:2 to old rival Brazil, and it was also in this game that Neymar staged the longest fall of the World Cup.
In the 71st minute of the game, Neymar received a big kick from the goalkeeper on the left, but during the stopover, the ball went out of the sideline and Neymar lost his balance and fell on the sidelines, at which point Mexico's Layun looked like he wanted to pick up the ball to drive the ball out of bounds.
Neymar then began a two-minute long groan of pain on the sidelines.
Although the video replay showed that Layun seemed to deliberately step on Neymar's ankle with his toes during the ball, Neymar's exaggerated performance after that was questioned by many fans.
So, let's take a look at the overall data!
In all four games, Neymar fell a total of 43 times, with the duration of the fall reaching 8 minutes and 15 seconds, according to the data.
Of all the falls, the median time he fell to the ground was 6 seconds, eight of which Neymar fell to the ground for more than 20 seconds.
In the four matches of this World Cup, Neymar's longest record for the stadium without falling to the ground was 34 minutes and 16 seconds.
About 60 percent of Neymar's falls occur during the time of a tie. But the data tells us that when Brazil is dominant, he falls more often (about 8.5 minutes), and when the score is tied, he falls about every 9.5 minutes.
Judging from the time of falling to the ground, the time he fell to the ground when the score was beaten was only 9 seconds, but when the score exceeded the opponent, this time reached 15 seconds.
We also noticed that Neymar was indeed one of the most violated players in this World Cup, but he did have a lot of unnecessary deliberate falls or even fake falls.
The most notable fall occurred in Brazil's match against Costa Rica.
In the 78th minute of the match, Neymar threw his body heavily into the turf of the penalty area. The referee awarded a penalty, but after the video referee intervened, the referee looked back at the video of the game and determined that Neymar's physical contact with the defender was very subtle, and finally cancelled the penalty award.
This incident actually reflects the official judgment of Neymar's fake fall.
Even Brazil coach Tite, who defended Neymar hard at the press conference, criticized Neymar's fake fall in 2012: "Neymar's fake fall is a bad example for children, and those who see this will think that it is right to take advantage of others." The comment came after Tite's Corinthians lost the game to Santos, led by Neymar.
So it's understandable that players are using rules, and even unsportsmanismosity, to help their teams win, so let's put aside the arguments and unpleasantness and enjoy this quadrennial global event together.
The material is from the Wall Street Journal