Casemiro's bolt from the blue earned Brazil qualification for the last-16 after a hard-fought clash with a dogged Switzerland.
After a first half with barely any chances to speak of, Vinicius Junior thought he'd given the Brazilians the lead early in the second half, only for his effort to be ruled out for offside after fine close control.
The Swiss demonstrated very little attacking output of their own throughout the match at Stadium 974, until Casemiro made them pay for their negativity with a brilliant strike which flew into the top corner from an angle.
Here are the game's talking points.
1. Did we know he had this in him?
Manchester United were supposed to be signing a Steady Eddie, weren't they? A reliable, grown-up midfielder who was supposed to keep things ticking over for them in a problem area.
Casemiro is much more than that.
As he has already proven in English football, where he recently got that late equaliser at Chelsea, the former Real Madrid man certainly has an eye for goal. But this?
It was a glorious, searing strike that nearly knocked out this stadium's many shipping containers with the noise that followed it.
2. Big shoes to fill
In Doha you're never more than a few feet or a few seconds away from either seeing or hearing about Neymar.
The Brazilian, a star for the Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain of course, is one of the faces of this World Cup. He glares back at you from the video screens on the Metro and features on adverts played both before matches and at half-time.
With injured players dropping like flies before this tournament the organisers would have been desperate for him to stay fit, but not at desperate as Brazil are.
Without him there is a lack of spark and dynamism to their attack, as we saw during a first half which largely passed by without incident.
Richarlison is a superb forward and, as he showed in the first game he can score spectacular goals, but Brazil need to find ways to get him into those positions to score them, and without Neymar to call on that is certainly more difficult.
3. Inspiration or intimidation from on high?
When you play for Brazil there are bound to be several greats that have gone before you, and often they'll be there to keep an eye on you too.
As Tite's side struggled to get going in the first half the big screen flashed up images of three World Cup winners - Cafu, Roberto Carlos and Ronaldo - all sitting together and looking a little non-plussed with the events that were unfolding before their eyes.
Things were pretty different in their day, they'll have been saying, as the style that we associate with the South Americans was conspicuous by its absence.
4. Rodrygo the super sub
No player likes to be typecast as one that is better at coming off the bench, but Rodrygo has developed a habit of showing that for both club and country.
The Real Madrid man's interventions as substitute were what underpinned much of Real Madrid's win to winning the Champions League last season, and here he was injecting a bit of energy into a Brazil side who laboured in the first period.
After replacing the disappointing Lucas Paqueta of West Ham, Rodrygo was immediately running at the Swiss defence and seeking to gee up a crowd which had fallen flat.
He might have done enough to start the next game, although Tite probably prefers him as a sub.
5. No holes in the Swiss defence
So after a 1-0 win over Cameroon in their first game came this solid performance from the Swiss, who are unlikely to win many awards for artistic merit but are still a tough side to beat.
A very tough one.
Coach Murat Yakin has moulded a unit that work hard for each other, from players who seem to have been around in this team forever in the likes of Yann Sommer, Ricardo Rodriguez and Granit Xhaka, to the younger models like Ruben Vargas and Fabian Rieder.
They were ultimately beaten by a moment of genius, and that is nothing to be too hard on themselves about.
