After the final whistle had sounded in the 1-1 draw against Ajax, Bayern Munich manager Niko Kovac appeared no less stunned than the Allianz Arena crowd about his team's puzzlingly poor showing.
"I need to first let that sink in and gather my thoughts," Kovac pleaded with TV reporters, making no secret of his struggle to come to terms with the deeply disconcerting concoction of failure he had just witnessed.
Bar the determined, muscular opening 15 minutes of the game, his team had been so sloppy in possession, disorganised in transition and passive in defence that Ajax could count themselves unlucky to come away with only a draw.