Chile international Maria Rojas has kickstarted Melbourne City's A-League Women campaign, turning their season opener with Wellington Phoenix in two magical minutes.
City ran out 4-1 winners at Sky Stadium on Sunday for New Zealand's first professional women's club football match.
Wellingtonians came out for the occasion, with a crowd of 5213 setting a new benchmark: the biggest for a standalone regular season game in the competition's history.
However, the Phoenix couldn't match even a depleted City side, with Rojas opening the floodgates just after half-time.
The Chilean forward only signed an injury replacement contract with City on Thursday, but looked completely in sync with her teammates.
In the 48th minute, she ran a ring around Nix defender Kate Taylor before producing the perfect cross, allowing Bryleeh Henry to tap home a close-range volley.
Two minutes later she had her own name on the scoresheet, running off Taylor again to sidefoot home at the near post.
City should have had a third shortly after, with Brianna Edwards appearing to fumble Rhianna Pollicina's strike over the goal line, only for the assistant referee to miss it.
Still, the goals kept coming, with Pollicina converting a 65th minute penalty after Zoe McMeeken was bamboozled by Rojas' trickery.
Pollicina - a dominant force in a roaming midfield role - added a second with a sharp curling effort in the 69th minute.
The contest settled, Ava Pritchard at least gave the home crowd something to celebrate when her strike beat Sally James courtesy of a deflection off Kate Torpey.
On this evidence, City look like title contenders - particularly given the weight of experience to come back into the side.
Senior players Emma Checker, Karly Roestbakken and NZ international Hannah Wilkinson were all missing, though City did boast another Football Fern in Katie Bowen - as well as Rojas.
Emina Ekic might have scored a first-half double, producing an embarrassing point-blank miss before a sharp Edwards save to keep it scoreless at the break.
The win gave former City and Phoenix player Dario Vidosic a taste of coaching success, with the assistant standing in for his unwell father Rado in the City dugout.
