Neymar comes up small in a big game again.

[patdog]

Belgium say take your whining, diving, faking *** home.

 

[fishwater99]

They need to Yellow and Red card their *** out of the game..

 

[patdog]

He should have had another yellow card today for a dive in the penalty box.

 

[EurekaDog]

It's time for FIFA to address the histrionics. I'd suggest...

that if a player isn't on his feet after 15 seconds, then that player has to go off and can't return for 5 minutes.
If that doesn't work, bump it to 10 minutes.

 

[JungRebel]

I hate how Neymar plays but he had some solid crosses late in the game that should have been goals.

 

[patdog]

That's a bit extreme. It happens in football (American style) all the time. Player tweaks something during a play, goes down, clock stops, trainers come out, help him up, walks to sideline, trots back in for the next play. Just enforce the rule that a dive is a yellow card, and use VAR to hand out the cards retroactively at the next stoppage of play.

 

[patdog]

He was also a turnover machine yesterday. And a shot hog. Leads the World Cup with 27 shots. Scored 2 goals in 5 games.