For over 75 minutes at Atletico Madrid's Estadio Wanda Metropolitano, Manchester United were at the mercy of a supremely confident 22-year-old.
Manchester City's neighbours travelled to Spain for their Champions League round of 16 tie amid a particularly uninspiring run of form, their saving grace being that their opponents have had been even worse of late.
Yet in the first half of the 1-1 draw, there was only one team in it, Atletico - who had lost four of ten games since the turn of the year - inspired by a resurgent Joao Felix.