Neymar was full of tricks and ‘Chile killer’ Robinho came off the bench to score the winner as World Cup hosts Brazil stretched their unbeaten run to six games.

Robinho took his personal tally to nine against their South American rivals with a 79th-minute header and boosted his chances of playing at next year’s World Cup finals.

Robinho, who has now scored one more goal against Chile than Pele, was recalled for this month’s friendlies against Chile and Honduras after two years in the international wilderness.

He appears to have taken his chance and his performances in both games suggest he will make it into Luiz Felipe Scolari’s squad for next year’s World Cup.

‘I always had luck against Chile,’ Robinho said afterwards.

‘I didn’t know I had the record against Chile until just now. What was important was that we played well.’

Both teams struggled on an improvised surface of moveable grassy squares that rose up with alarming frequency and lareg parts of which had to be replaced at half-time.

But it was Brazil who opened the scoring in the 14th minute when Oscar threaded a perfect pass to Hulk, who lashed home a venomous shot from 12 yards.

Neither side was able to impose themselves on the match and Chile, coming off a 2-0 win over England at Wembley, grabbed a deserved equaliser in the 70th minute when Eduardo Vargas picked up a fortuitous knock down and stroked the ball past Julio Cesar from 25 yards out.

However, Brazil took the lead again 12 minutes from time thanks to Robinho.

Chilean goalkeeper Claudio Bravo completely missed Maicon’s cross and the AC Milan striker was on hand to bullet a header home from point-blank range.

And Bravo was embarrassed by Neymar’s outrageous double chapeu before blocking his shot with a desperate dive.

The result ended Chile’s 10-game unbeaten run and took Brazil’s string of unbeaten matches to six.

Brazil are expected to play one more friendly, against South Africa in Johannesburg in March, before Scolari announces his World Cup squad.

Brazil are hosting the tournament next year for the first time since 1950.

—Daily Mail