I remember months ago when Messi tore Bolivia apart and this forum went mental about his performance even though it wasn't a Barcelona match (and some of the users say that they are here just because they are barcelona fans and not player fanboy lmao).
Yesterday Neymar did very much better than Messi against the same bolivian side and not a single fuck was given, the usual suspects will come here soon and say that
Bolivia is Mickey Mouse team and they don't give a fuck because it wasn't a Barcelona match.
Bolivia is a Mickey Mouse team, there you go.
Anyway, I didn't watch the match, and when you posted this I wanted to see his individual highlights video on Youtube.
Before I have opened a video, my prediction was in my head:
Let's see:
1. Neymar lately gets deep to get the ball in Barca.
In Brasil, where he is a one man show, he will do that thing all the time probably.
2. Neymar lately hogs the ball for 10-20 seconds for no reason each time when he gets the ball in Barca.
Since in Brasil he is the leader, he will probably do even more of that crap.
3. Neymar lately tries to dribble past 2-3-4 defenders all the time, and thus he slows down the game all the time with unneeded tricks and dribbles (hear, hear: dribbles in general are NOT a bad thing, but if you try to attempt a dribble EVERY SINGLE TIME when you get the ball, well, then you are an idiot and you are ruining a flow of your team)
4. there will be some diving and fouls on him, and he'll probably get involved in at least one fight with an opponent
Now, let's check the video and see whether Neymar will fulfill my prediction:
So, in 11 minutes of his individual actions, he scored a nice goal and had 2 assist.
While these stats are awesome (even though I am not sure how strong is Bolivia), in other actions he lost more or less EVERY SINGLE BALL, or at least ruined an action with slowing down, dribbling, doing unneeded tricks etc.
Plus, we have seen tons of ballhogging, dribbling backwards, diving for no reason, fighting with random opponents, fighting with a referee.
I am one of the bigger Ney-haters on this forum, but I will admit that I didn't expect him too play this badly this soon.
This match is more or less the same as Monchengladbach:Barca (except that probably Bolivia is way less organized in defense and more naive).
Neymar lost 16 balls against Gladbach and assisted for a win in the end.
Against Bolivia, the same. He is losing the ball after ball.
In the end he scores or makes an assist, but at least in my eyes: losing 10 balls and making 1 assist/goal is not a good ratio.
It is the same as having 10 sitters, scoring 1-2 goals and missing 8-9 easy chances and say: but I have scored 2 key goals!!
If Neymar will play this way for Barca (ballhogging, showboating, trick after trick, dribbling all the time, dribbling backwards, overcomplicating every action), we will have insane problems in the future.
About him fighting with opponents in more or less every match nowadays, that is not even a news anymore.
For the end, imo, Neymar has gone totally "Hollywood-way", with tricks over everything and tricks at all costs lately.
