As is his way, Jesse Marsch was already celebrating before a ball had been kicked. Firing up a crowd that needed no stoking, the Leeds United manager genuinely looked just as he did when the winner went in later in the afternoon, both fists clenched and arms waving.
And that was just in response to stepping back inside the technical area after three months away.
Marsch, a bundle of pent-up energy following a summer of change, saw Leeds play in his image, some chaos theory —although not nearly as much as under predecessor Marcelo Bielsa — and a difference in defensive shape.