With a perfectly weighted lifted pass over the West Ham defence, the World Cup-winner served up the ball for Joao Felix to apply an equally accomplished finish to put the Blues ahead.

There were other eye-catching moments of midfield art and craft from the Argentinean too, as there had been from the start in his debut match against Fulham.

So do Chelsea fans who witnessed those games have a good idea already of what Enzo is going to bring to English football in the coming years? He certainly gave the watching world a taste of his skills in Qatar at the end of last year, earning himself the Young Player of the Tournament award, but although his Benfica career was short having moved there from his homeland in the summer, his regular appearances in Portugal provided plenty of time on the ball for comparisons to be made.

It is very early days in the 22-year-old’s Premier League career, but faced with the legendary intensity of the English top-flight game, and in two London derbies no less, there were indicators he is bringing his regular game to the Blues’ pattern of play.

Shortly after Enzo signed for Chelsea, the Athletic published an in-depth analysis of his short European career to date, as an indicator of what sort of player the Blues had obtained.

Describing the player’s metronome-like impact on table-topping Benfica’s play, the Athletic noted that it had been from the left side of a defensive midfield pair in a 4-2-3-1 system.

As the average position chart above from Chelsea’s outing at the London Stadium on Saturday shows, in a comparable system, Graham Potter deployed his newest signing as the left player at the base of a midfield triangle, with Ruben Loftus-Cheek to his right and Joao Felix at the forward point, with all the expected rotation and mobility of course.

From there, Enzo produced the most passes by any player on the pitch, his 96 already pushing up towards his average per game for Benfica.

His heat map against the Hammers also shows he was operating largely in the same central area of the pitch where the Athletic identifies he was Benfica’s playmaker, his ability to wait for his moment to spring wide players into attack with his long diagonal passes especially noted.

In Chelsea’s game at West Ham, not far off 50 per cent of Enzo’s passes were to one of the three full-backs used during the 90 minutes, with 19 alone going to Reece James.

And for the goal itself, it was the only such ball he attempted in the game, but one remarkably similar to a pass highlighted by the Athletic as one of his five league assists for Benfica, in terms of receiving the ball from the left-back, position on the pitch and the delivery.

On the defensive side, for a player whose high number of successful tackles in the World Cup final has been highlighted, on Saturday in east London it can be reported that he recorded the joint-most tackles by a Blues player in the game.

Early days at Chelsea indeed, but early signs that Enzo’s game in England would be recognised by Benfica and Argentina fans alike.