After 45 minutes here, West Ham had enjoyed just 30 per cent of the ball, not mustered a single shot on or off target and, as a result, had an unsurprising expected goals tally of exactly none. And yet they led Arsenal by a goal to nil, Ben White having headed a wicked Jarrod Bowen corner into his own net.
The jokes were already writing themselves, of a David Moyesian masterclass in which his side, having so struggled when expected to dominate Everton at the weekend, reverted to their underdog best to furrow a path into quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.
