Tilva, Matip and Courtois must all burn with embarrassment for the truly aberrant passing-around in their own area which then led to a frightened Tilva lumping it directly into the face of the oncoming Zlatan for the second goal. And yet somehow the Cocks did not spontaneously implode out of shame at half-time. Maybe it will have happened after Courtois dropped it to allow Benatia to poke home a final,undignified winner.

By Hakan Yurk