Newcastle won. Brentford lost. And Christian Eriksen came on as a second half substitute to complete one of football's most remarkable personal comeback stories.
Eriksen replaced Mathias Jensen in the 52nd minute and the Danes embraced briefly, no doubt fully aware of the significance.
Jensen had been the substitute, sent on to replace Eriksen after the distressing scenes that followed his cardiac arrest in Copenhagen, on a Saturday evening in June, during Denmark's opening fixture of Euro 2020 against Finland.
'Gone from this world for five minutes,' was the way Eriksen summed it after signing for Brentford last month and, here he was, back in competitive football, 37 weeks later.