The pause for a long VAR review of the Brooks incident ought to have given Maresca a moment to calm and reorganise his troops. Instead, the Italian spent it raging on the touchline, while most of his players crowded Rob Jones at the pitchside screen.

That song has become all too rare at Chelsea over the past two years, but James picked a captain’s moment to remind everyone why they sing it at Stamford Bridge. This was a game of two halves but the point of demarcation was not the half-time break — it was the 56th minute.

Reece James scores stoppage-time free-kick to rescue Chelsea a point - Bournemouth had come from behind to lead 2-1.