It was the sort of night that demonstrated precisely why every Premier League club should crave European football.
Hajduk Split’s Stadion Poljud was rocking to the racket generated by the Croatian team’s partisan supporters for the best part of an hour before kick-off.
Even with a two-goal lead from the first-leg, Everton knew they still had a real job on their hands. And thanks to a glorious goal from Gylfi Sigurdsson and a resilient team display, the Blues accomplished it.
Here we dissect five talking points from an absorbing evening’s action in Split…
Sigurdsson, Gylfi Sigurdsson
Evertonians took to Gyfli Sigurdsson from the moment he walked in the door.