For 50 minutes or so, Chelsea’s return to action was going about as well as it could.
After looking like they needed the World Cup break as much as any Premier League team, having suffered four successive domestic defeats going into it, the time off appeared to have done Graham Potter’s side a world of good.
They were blowing an at times helpless Bournemouth away and it seemed only a matter of how many they would score and how much of a statement they would make.
Then Reece James went down injured.
An audible groan swept around Stamford Bridge as he fell to the floor after signalling to the bench straight away he needed to come off.