With six matches left to play, Brazil's football stars were already able to celebrate that the tickets to the World Cup in Qatar in a little over a year will be ready.
Colombia - which in October became the first team to take points from Brazil in the ongoing World Cup qualifiers - admittedly offered strong opposition even now.
But with 20 minutes left to play in São Paulo, Lucas Paquetá was able to break the deadlock.
Brazil stopped a Colombian play at the center line and two quick passes and a direct touch by Neymar later, Paquetá was able to place the ball in the goal post.
- This is the fruit of the hard work we have put in, says Paquetá according to the news agency AP.
"Keep working hard"
But the fact that the national team is ready for the World Cup does not mean that the Lyon striker is, the battle for places in the team is fierce.
- Now I have to continue working hard to take a place in the squad, he states.
The odd victory means that Brazil has eleven wins and a draw after twelve matches and mathematically can not miss one of the four South American direct places.
Thus, three teams have qualified for the World Cup via qualifiers, in addition to Brazil also Denmark and Germany.
In addition, the host nation Qatar is also World Cup-ready.
For Colombia, one point would have been important.
Behind Brazil and qualifier Argentina, the battle for World Cup places is fierce, and Colombia is very much involved.
Close around the qualifying line
Together with Chile and Uruguay, the team is one of three standing on 16 points, possibly only one of them will be able to directly qualify for the World Cup.
Chile got help in Paraguay from an own goal from the home team and won 1-0.
The team, which started the qualifier shakily, now has three straight wins and is ahead of Colombia on a better goal difference.
Uruguay meets Argentina on Saturday night.
The trio is also threatened by Peru, who are two points behind.
The team stood for tonight's big victory, 3-0 against Bolivia, where Malmö FF's Sergio Peña scored the 2-0 goal.
Ecuador also took an important victory.
Piero Hincapié's goal against Venezuela was enough for three points and the team now has four points down to the trio of 16 points.
FOOTBALL: Sweden's missed positions against Georgia (11 Nov 2021)
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Sweden with four dream positions against Georgia