The first half was a polite handshake disguised as a match, two sides circling each other like nobody wanted to be the one who started anything.

Then Switzerland came out for the second half and scored twice in eleven minutes, Vargas at 46 and Manzambi at 57, which is the football equivalent of skipping the small talk and dropping the punchline.

Promise David's strike at 76 turned a comfy lead into actual theatre, and the closing stretch finally gave us the nerves the opening forty refused to deliver.