In a Euro 2016 tournament where the super-stars have failed to fire we suddenly have ignition. It came on Sunday evening; it came in Toulouse and it came with Belgium’s Eden Hazard the torchbearer.

It was a brilliantly illuminating performance that might have also sent a momentary cold shudder through soaring Welsh hearts. They have Gareth Bale, one of the few other elite players at these finals to have enhanced his status, but will now face Belgium in the last eight in Lille this Friday.

The venue is important. France is a second home for Hazard and Lille is where it all began for him, his first club, and he has never played in their new stadium, the Stade Pierre-Mauroy which opened in August 2012 a couple of months after his move to Chelsea. The emotional pull is powerful.