In the 94th minute sheer ecstasy for Chelsea and Calum McFarlane when Enzo Fernández forced home the equaliser. It left Pep Guardiola howling at the heavens and gave Chelsea’s interim manager a golden moment. Guardiola v McFarlane could be billed as the Premier League’s greatest managerial mismatch, so the memory of Fernández’s intervention should warm the 40-year-old in his dotage.
On the home bench was the generation’s pre-eminent figure, with 40 trophies on his CV for Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City, taking charge of a 1,012th match. In the opposite technical area, a former coach at Croydon, Whyteleafe and City’s academy (2020-23), who led Southampton Under-18s and arrived to make a senior managerial bow, seconded from his regular post guiding the under‑21s and under-19s.
