In years to come, very little of the Reds’ first visit to the Wanda Metropolitano Stadium will be easily recalled.
There was scant footage to save for the United highlight reel until Anthony Elanga raced on to Bruno Fernandes’s slide-rule pass and calmly side-footed his shot beyond Atletico Madrid’s giant Slovenian goalkeeper and captain Jan Oblak.
Moments after coming on and with his first real involvement in the game, the Swede had scored a vital away goal – although, of course, it wasn’t an ‘away goal’ as such, with the decades-old rule for this competition phased out last summer.