Obviously so disorientated by the night, and the season as one, some of Manchester City's players struggled to leave the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday. Turning left when the route out was clearly right.
Looking around puzzled, a little dazed. Requiring assistance to map their way onto the travel coach. The episode wasn't doing much to dispel the idea that Pep Guardiola's guiding a number of golden oldies around on a tour abruptly ended in Madrid.
Underground, a busker and his purple guitar played The Final Countdown by Europe – and played it very nicely too – as hundreds poured onto the metro.