A home match against a cautious opposition gave new boss Flick a good opportunity to demonstrate how he intends for his side to operate; the early evidence here suggests that he does not intend to introduce sweeping change – just some extra confidence. Sancho opened the scoring almost immediately and Pellegrini’s absolute scorcher then seemed to kill the game pretty much dead on 18 minutes – but only a Vidal penalty added to the rout from there.

By… do you remember the woman out of Evanescence? Yeah. Her. I’m her mum, Sara.