Paulinho hailed Barcelona teammate Philippe Coutinho after Brazil's World Cup win over Serbia.

Paulinho opened the scoring for the Selecao against Serbia thanks to a sublime through ball from Coutinho.

"I'm always looking for space and that's the way it happened for the first goal," he explained afterwards when discussing his strike.

"The phenomenon Coutinho gave me a great assist and I managed to score.

"Our goal was to reach the round of 16 and that's where we are, I'm not worried about Germany and won't comment on what happened to them."