The night Tottenham Hotspur matched the biggest club in the world, the team that has won three of the last four Champions League titles, may yet go down as a benchmark performance.
There will be those across north London who would be quick to remind Spurs that they have yet to win anything under their gilded manager, Mauricio Pochettino, while the much-derided Arsene Wenger has won three FA Cup wins in four years.
But taking on Real Madrid in their own back yard and pretty much matching them, even it needed a couple of exceptional saves from Hugo Lloris, felt significant.