In the Champions League against Monaco, we're getting a taste of that. Playing in midfield, Eric Garcia was sent off with a straight red card only 10 minutes into the match for denial of a goalscoring opportunity against Takumi Minamino.

It is widely known as the “Thierry Henry fake-shot pass” — in honour of the French World Cup winner — but Bayer Leverkusen striker Victor Boniface may have to trademark it as his own after his pre-assist against Feyenoord.

Lamal boasts a number of scoring milestones for Barcelona and for Spain and became the youngest-ever scorer at the European Championship in the summer on the way to helping Spain win the tournament.

Three days, 18 games, a boatload of high-grade performers: there really hasn't been a shortfall of options for our first Champions League team of the week. We'll be playing 4-4-2 this time, partly because it's the formation that lets you get the broadest sweep of options into your XI but mostly because I watched "Mike Bassett: England Manager" last week.

That may be more of an issue for this new Champions League than Mikel Arteta, who seemed content enough to come from Atalanta with a 0-0 draw and an opening point. That was largely thanks to both the intelligence and instinct of David Raya.