There were suggestions, as the assembled press tapped away at their laptops inside La Ceramica on Tuesday night, that it had all got too much for Liverpool's Luis Diaz at full-time.
Seeing himself officially declared as a Champions League finalist was, according to some inside Villarreal's stadium, a moment that had brought Diaz to tears.
So moved was he at confirmation of Liverpool's place in Paris that the Colombian winger was overcome with emotion while his younger brother and agent, Raul de Pais, watched on inside the ground.
