Lino scores his first two Brazil goals in a 4-0 win over India

Samuel Lino scored his first two goals for Brazil, and Carlo Ancelotti's side beat India 4-0 on Saturday night at Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, in front of 51,000 people who cheered the visitors as loudly as the home team.

Estevao, the Chelsea winger, opened the scoring in the 28th minute, cutting in from the right and finishing with his left foot at the near post. He then played the pass that put Pedro through for the second. Pedro set up Lino for the third near the hour. Lino, a 26-year-old Flamengo winger, beat two defenders and made it 4-0 in stoppage time. Reuters clocked the first goal at 28 minutes. A separate match report put Estevao's strike at 18 minutes and described it coming off the hands of goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. The scorer and the 4-0 score are not in dispute. The minute is.

Ancelotti made eight changes from Tuesday's 4-2 win over Australia. He kept only Vinicius Jr, Danilo and Gabriel Bontempo. The India match closed a tour of three friendlies in Australia and India: two wins and a draw. Vinicius did not score. India's plan, leaving him unmarked on the left and trying to catch him offside, worked for a spell. It did not survive the first Brazil goal.

How India tried to make a game of it

India sat with a low midfield and used long balls toward Manvir Singh, the lone forward. Early on, the offside trap on Vinicius produced the sort of half-chance a team in this mismatch has to take. Bijoy Varghese lifted a ball that forced Marquinhos into a recovery tackle. After the break Manvir tested the Brazilian goalkeeper from a tight angle. The cost of playing out from the back arrived around the hour, when a loose pass from Bijoy inside his own third went to Lino, who curled the third goal past substitute goalkeeper Prabhsukhan Singh Gill.

The crowd figure, 51,000 in a ground whose current capacity is 68,000, is the local fact that sits next to the score. Salt Lake, officially Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, has been India's main football stage since 1984 and hosted the final of the 2017 Under-17 World Cup. A full-strength Brazil does not come often. The noise for the visiting goals, reported by Reuters, is a measure of what the audience came to see: the Brazil shirt, not a contest India was favoured to win.

What the score does and does not say

A 4-0 friendly against a side ranked far above the host is not a ranking event. FIFA will not move India on the back of it. It is a tape for the All India Football Federation and for the players who started. Gurpreet, the first-choice goalkeeper, was beaten for the opener. Gill, the substitute, was beaten twice. Manvir's hold-up play is the part of the plan that showed on the ball. The rest of the plan, a low block and an offside trap against Vinicius, lasted until Estevao came inside.

For Ancelotti the match was a rotation. Eight changes, a first Brazil brace for Lino, and a second assist-and-goal night for Estevao, who is 19 and already in the Chelsea side. The coach has used the three friendlies to look at combinations he will not see again once European clubs recall players. Lino's two goals are the concrete return. He had not scored for the national team before Saturday.

The tour, closed

Brazil leave India with the Australia result and this one on the sheet. India leave with a tape of 90 minutes against a World Cup side, a stadium that turned out 51,000, and a scoreline that matches the gap in rank. The next useful comparison is not another friendly against a top-ten team. It is whether the players who started here keep the same roles when India plays a side it is meant to compete with.