Whoever decided it was going to be a good idea to schedule in Barcelona’s game in hand on the Thursday after the international break was fortunately spared any comeback from the Catalans.
That’s because the hosts’ performance was so dominant that the result against Osasuna - a team that had inflicted Hansi Flick’s first defeat as Barca coach - was never in doubt.
If there was a question that needed to be answered it was going to be ‘how many goals would Barca score?’
In the end it was three, but if some of Barca’s hard-working stars had their shooting boots on, five or six wouldn’t have disgraced Hansi Flick’s side.