That's why they paid the money. In one thrilling moment, it was there – with the fixed gaze, the brute force and the thumping header.
If eyebrows were raised when Crystal Palace gave Liverpool £28million for Christian Benteke, he has gone some way in the past seven days to showing what a force he can become for Alan Padrew, scoring a goal to put another puncture in Everton's bright start to the season.
Sat in the directors box, England's interim head coach Gareth Southgate will have left Goodison Park with his knowledge bolstered that Belgium have some fine strikers – Benteke's compatriot Romelu Lukaku had opened the scoring for Everton – but with some food for thought on Ross Barkley.