Right then, eyes down for some more football.

The cosmic balance is reasserting itself: Brazil look a team again, and solidify their position at the top of Conmebol qualifying. Paraguay stay 7th, and will not make it to Russia, it now seems fair to say.

Full-time: Brasil 3x0 Paraguay

The scoreboard has not deigned to tell us how long injury-time will be, but Casemio has just had a shot deflected wide by Valdez; from the corner, the ref espies an infringement.

"BRAZIL PLAYED THE BEAUTIFUL" says Google translate.

WHAT A GOAL! Brasil 3x0 Paraguay (Marcelo) This is wonderful! Coutinho moves infield and plays into Paulinho who, back to goal, stuns a kind of backspinning through ball the sends Marcelo in. He could square, he could slot him with his right foot, but instead uses the outside of his left to curl home over the top of the diving Silva. Great stuff!

Thiago Silva appears to have come on, and he's the first to meet Neymar's free-kick, heading over the bar from six yards after overrunning the flight of the ball.

Neymar picks up possession close to halfway and as he saunters goalwards Perez runs behind him, rapping the backs of his knees on general principle. He's booked.

Paraguay force their way forward and win a corner down the left. Dominguez and Miranda both miss their headers so the ball's allowed to bounce, creating a millisecond of panic before it's humped clear.

Yet another foul on Neymar gives Brazil a free-kick 30 yards out, just left of centre, and this time Paulinho is behind hit. He goes for more power than Neymar usually so employs, so might at least hurt the man in the wall when he inevitably hits him, as he does - it's Dominguez.

But within seconds Neymar is on the ball again, just outside the box, again left of centre. He quickly swipes a low shot towards the far corner, which whizzes only just wide.

Well this is somewhat odd. Augusto charges down a clearance and it shoots into Neymar's path. Inside the box, left-hand side, he bends a finish into the corner, jogs over to the corner flag, kneels down and points it like a sniper. Then the ref disallows the goal for offside. Unlucky!

Paraguay win a free-kick wide on the left which Dominguez curls in and which Alisson misjudges - no! I hear you gasp - but yes he did. Sill, he readjusts well to punch clear.

Neymar is enjoying himself now, weaving infield and spreading wide for Fagner, whose cross into the middle is decent, but Veron just about manages to head clear.

Paraguay knock it about along their back-four. They've got to pass the time somehow, I guess.

GOAL DO BRASIL! NEYMAR JUNIOR! Brasil 2x0 Paraguay (Neymar) Redemption! Neymar picks up possession around halfway and speeds off towards the box, and when he reaches it, Da Silva backs off and backs off, feart he'll go outside even though he knows he's going inside. So he goes inside and curls a shot towards the far corner, which clips Valdez and lifts over the keeper who's already committed to a dive. I think Brazil might win this one.

Casemiro bursts forward, so Santander slides in - I think he might just have got the ball, but the ref gives a foul, 20 yards out, close to the left corner of the box. Neymar hits it into the wall, and Paraguay flood out.

So confident was whoever does Brazil's official Twitter that he tweeted a goal when that penalty was given. Never mind.

Second change for Paraguay: Santander replaces Gonzalez.