It’s approaching 600 days since the Parisian night which suggested that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was returning Manchester United to the kind of high plain that Sir Alex Ferguson’s players once strode.
That breath-taking Champions League win over Paris Saint-Germain in March last year was about youth, courage, ambition and hope.
The club will come full circle this week on Tuesday, when they return to Parc des Princes in the same competition, and although this was a credible comeback win to send them there and extinguish the memory of that Old Trafford evisceration two weeks ago, it was no more than that.