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Brazilian football has long wrestled between two systems: the flair of a samba style and the pragmatism needed to win at the highest level.

One of the top 12 samba schools competing for the title was Paraíso do Tuiuti, whose dancers paraded in exuberant feathers.

He said: "It was more like a salsa... This, for me, didn't go far enough into the world of samba."

Then it adopted moves from break dancing, samba, capoeira, frevo — whatever was around.

His first goal was like he was doing samba footwork as he danced around three Forest defenders before smashing the most exquisite shot past Matz Sels.