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Neymar: PSG star showed Real Madrid how it's done with outrageous trick in 2020

Neymar has mastered the art of the pass-penalty.

When you consider that the Paris Saint-Germain star is one of the most creative players in the game today, it only makes sense that he would have attempted arguably football’s riskiest stunt.

This is a man, after all, who not only deals in rainbow flicks and step-over marathons, but also watched Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez pull off the exact trick before his very own eyes.

Let's face it, Neymar has all the ingredients to become a baller brave enough to reject all common sense from the penalty spot and decide to pass the ball as oppose to shooting.

Intrigued yet? Well, it gets even better, because the beauty of the day that Neymar channeled Johan Cruyff and Jesper Olsen was that he showed up Real Madrid in the process.

To explain why, you need to cast your minds back to July 2020 and a time where Los Blancos were trying to seal the La Liga title in style during a 2-1 win against Villarreal at the Estadio Alfredo Di Stefano.

With Zinedine Zidane's men clearly feeling as though they were sauntering their way to silverware, Sergio Ramos decided to channel the audacious when Real were awarded a penalty.

And for all intents and purposes, it looked as though the Spanish giants had absolutely nailed it because Ramos perfectly slipped the ball to Karim Benzema who found the back of the net.

However, there was a problem, because it quickly transpired that Benzema had actually entered the penalty area before Ramos had touched the ball and therefore, the referee ordered a retake.

Benzema then stepped up to take the spot-kick himself and scored it in traditional style, granted, but it nevertheless meant that Real had failed to execute a pass-penalty in a legal manner.

Amusingly,

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