It was a moment of cool, utterly imperturbable intuition which sealed the night and demonstrated that Manchester City are now armed with something for Europe which they did not have before.
By the time the unremitting rain had cleared and they had placed a foot in the semi-finals, Erling Haaland had despatched a ball into the net from close quarters - but it was his provision of the decisive second goal, for Bernardo Silva, which really took your breath way.
Without so much as a glance across the box into his peripheral vision, he lifted the ball for the goal-scorer to accelerate into.