Amid a transfer market now where players deemed “average” by the likes of Jose Mourinho and Arsene Wenger can cost as much as £40 million, the Chelsea hierarchy could be forgiven for feeling a certain smugness whenever they watch Pedro play.

Bought from under the noses of Manchester United from Barcelona in 2015 for £19 million, there is something in his diminutive physical stature and understated demeanour that risks slipping under the radar, but any objective analysis surely now places Pedro among the best value attacking arrivals of recent times.

He took less than five minutes here to put Chelsea into the lead and he has now scored 14 goals for the club from what is usually a wide and deeper-lying attacking position over the past 11 months. And yet, just as at Barcelona, it is his wider team play that makes him so valued by his team-mates.

A decade in Catalonia alongside the likes of Lionel Messi, Xavi and Andres Iniesta brings the guarantee of a certain technical level but what coaches like Pep Guardiola and now Antonio Conte clearly so appreciate is his work out of possession. Pedro is one of the few Chelsea players who even Conte rarely berates, quite simply because he has usually already sprinted back and pressurised his opponent before there has been time to start hollering.