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Swiss TV RTS decided to count how much time Neymar spent lying on the ground during matches and revealed that in four games he provoked opponents' mistakes 23 times, spending almost 14 minutes on the ground.
The longest time Neymar disrupted the game was in the match against Mexico - his team couldn't play for 5 minutes and 29 seconds because of him. The longest was his attempt to convince the referee that Miguel Layun injured him in the 71st minute when Neymar was on the ground for almost two minutes.
In the match against Serbia, Neymar spent 1:56 minutes on the ground, with Costa Rica 2:45 minutes, and with Switzerland 3:40 minutes, wasting a total of 13:50 minutes in this way.
The same TV channel calculated the average time that teams spend not playing - on average, there is no action happening for 13 minutes and 10 seconds in a match, and referees only compensate for just over half of this time - 6 minutes and 59 seconds.
