Four minutes into a rather nightmarish Manchester City debut, the camera honed in on Abdukodir Khusanov and caught a lost, vacant stare.
Cole Palmer lay at the centre-back’s feet having just been poleaxed. A referee’s yellow card flashed across his face in a blur. Beyond it, the Etihad Stadium scoreboard bore the evidence of Chelsea’s opening goal, gifted by a double-whammy of errors from the 20-year-old novice.
