There were three minutes of normal time remaining at Craven Cottage when fourth official Rob Jones held up the board to tell us that Harry Maguire was coming on as a late substitute again for Manchester United.
After spending more than £200million on forwards Benjamin Sesko, Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha this summer, Ruben Amorim had turned to the big centre-back in search of a goal for the second game in a row.
Maguire almost came up with one as well, meeting Mbeumo’s corner with a header narrowly wide of the post a matter of seconds later.