After the frenzy of round one, round two would provide moments of beauty amid the bluster.
These Manchester City vs Liverpool clashes are going to define just who gets to win the prizes in this specific, and remarkable, era of football, with a third in Paris also on the horizon should the largely expected occur across the next couple of weeks.
And as we saw at the Etihad last Sunday, it is the high octane action and the errors that can produce which makes this rivalry so compelling.
