Ruben Amorim heard the final whistle, grabbed his jacket and headed straight down the tunnel. His immediate feeling of relief had been swallowed by stress ahead of one of the most important games in his managerial career.
Two thousand miles away in the Arctic Circle, Tottenham Hotspur boss Ange Postecoglou's notoriously short fuse blew when Manchester United and how they feel about the Europa League was put to him. Stressed too? You bet.
For what is to come on May 21 in Bilbao is not just the biggest game of their respective seasons but a match which has the potential to transform - or ruin - the next few years.