Neymar scored the second damage-time intention in brazil's first win of the 2018 world cup towards costa rica on friday.

But no-one turned into discussing that.

Instead, all of us became targeted on the dives, the audacious showboats and the big cry on the final whistle.

Love him or hate him, the world's maximum costly participant continually gets humans speakme.

Bringing out the tricks in harm time
Neymar observed up philippe coutinho's harm-time opener with a 2d within the 97th minute with the aid of tapping in douglas costa's move.

It manner the 26-yr-vintage paris st-germain celebrity has scored fifty six desires in 87 matches for his us of a - best pele and ronaldo have scored extra.

However the intention itself paled in evaluation to a moment of magic skill, when he hooked a useless ball with both toes - or in soccer communicate, a rainbow flick - over the pinnacle of yeltsin tejeda and left the costa rica replacement's legs in a tangle.

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However now not everybody changed into feeling the showboating love. In reality, he changed into the lowest-scoring brazil player amongst bbc recreation users on the player rater with just 3.Seventy two out of 10.

Perhaps this is due to an earlier incident...

Diving for glory
Neymar denied penalty after var review
The magnificent backbend and sluggish-movement fall fooled referee bjorn kuipers momentarily before var proved neymar did move down a piece too effortlessly beneath pressure from giancarlo gonzalez.

Cue outrage from all 4 corners of the internet.

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The public show of emotion
Neymar in tears
It changed into all too much for the lad at complete-time. The whistle blew and neymar dropped to his knees and sobbed into russian grass.

Sure, it is only a collection match. But this is the world cup and he's from brazil.

In a passionate instagram post after the sport, the ahead wrote: "now not absolutely everyone knows what i went through to get right here...The crying is of pleasure, of overcoming, and a will to win."

Some wanted to provide the player a massive hug. Others have been feeling less generous.
 
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