The deep freeze is over. Just as London began its slow thaw, so too has Timo Werner, that £53million riddle whose existence as a goal-scorer seemed to have gone the way of the woolly mammoth.
But how he grinned here after ending the long wait. And it was a long wait, made up of horrible numbers – 14 league games without a goal, or 100 days to put it another way, back when Chelsea played Sheffield United in November. And what of minutes of playing time between strikes? It was a precise and damning 1,000.
Nasty figures, those.