Not only did Timo Werner score a first-half hattrick whilst Chelsea slumped to a damaging 2-1 defeat to Southampton. Summer target Anthony Gordon scored his second goal in two games, and Wilfried Zaha provided Crystal Palace with a moment of magic that Thomas Tuchel was in dire need of on the south coast.
It was a night that summed up the club's past problems, its current ones and areas that promise to halt or reverse any progress being made right now. There is now less than 48 hours for the transfer work to be completed, and at the end of that. Maybe with a thankful eye for Tuchel, the window will be shut, and the work that has been done will be what he has to work with.
The next time after September 1 that Tuchel gets to enter the market again properly will be after a World Cup, a drastically different market in its own way. The defeat only piled on the pressure and questions, ones likely to be made even more intense as the window draws to a close.
