Seventy-three minutes into Chelsea's Champions League clash with Ajax, a section of the Shed End chanted, "we’re going to bounce in a minute", which was - as promised - met by hundreds of Blues supporters bouncing up and down. That is what sort of night it was at Stamford Bridge.
Straightforward, comfortable, routine; it was something close to the perfect night for Enzo Maresca and his Chelsea players.
Robert Sanchez, Malo Gusto, Josh Acheampong, Trevoh Chalobah, Marc Cucurella, Reece James, Pedro Neto, Andrey Santos, Alejandro Garnacho and Joao Pedro all came out of the side as Maresca made a whopping 10 changes from the team that beat Nottingham Forest on Saturday afternoon. An incredible £282million (combined transfer fee) worth of talent came out of the side for one reason or the other, and it begged the question: is Maresca treating Europe’s elite competition like he did the Conference League last season?
Said question was emphatically answered, though, with Chelsea thrashing the out-of-form Dutch side in west London.
Such a task was made much easier when Kenneth Taylor was shown a straight red card for a high challenge on Facundo Buonanotte just 17 minutes into Wednesday night's match. From then on, it was a question of how many.
The Blues ended up with five, but in truth, it could have been as many as they wanted. Maresca clearly instructed his players to take the foot off the gas in the second-half after Tyrique George made it five. Chelsea ended up with such a young and inexperienced XI on the pitch, with an average age of just 20.6.
For the first time in the Champions League's history, three teenagers scored for one side. Marc Guiu, Estevao Willian and George all netted for the west Londoners as BlueCo's project continued to shine in SW6.
Before Wednesday evening, Chelsea’s youngest goal scorer in the Champions League was Reece James (19 years and 332 days), but that record was broken three times against Ajax. Estevao is now the youngest player to score on Europe's biggest stage for the Blues at 18 years and 181 days, with George (19 years and 260 days) and Guiu (19 years and 291 days).
"It’s the strategy of the club," Maresca said on giving young players an opportunity. "We have so many young players. I think already last season we were the youngest squad in the history of the Premier League, so this season we continue in the same way.
"We changed tonight from the Forest game, 10 players. It's not easy from the Premier League to the Champions League to change so many players, but we need to do that, otherwise they are going to struggle because of many games.
"We need to protect some of the players. Tonight I think was also good because we could rotate players, especially with the red card."
Reggie Walsh, who turned 17 just three days ago, came on in the 65th minute to become Chelsea’s youngest ever player in the Champions League. Walsh, who Maresca has waxed lyrical about already this season, did really well when coming on but it was his teammate that stole the show at Stamford Bridge.
Not many people can excite a stadium by simply touching the ball. The one, from a Chelsea perspective, that comes to mind in recent times is Eden Hazard. There's that clip from the Blues' Premier League clash with Stoke City in 2015 where Hazard gets the ball in a relatively non-threatening position on the left-hand side and the majority of the Matthew Harding Stand collectively stand up at once.
That is what it feels like whenever Estevao gets the ball. He has been compared to Hazard countless times already in his short Chelsea tenure, but he does have the same sort of affect as the Belgian.
At one point in the second-half, Estevao tried an audacious overhead kick that whistled just wide of the post. It would have been his second goal of the game after emphatically thumping a penalty into the corner in the first-half. The 18-year-old Brazilian was playing with remarkable confidence.
Estevao is a showman and Stamford Bridge has become his stage in no time at all. "I feel very lucky to be his manager because it’s exciting, you can enjoy," Maresca said on Estevao. "We said many times, I think the fans at the end, they paid the tickets to see players like Cole [Palmer], like Estevao, this kind of player. So it is nice that we can have players like Estevao, like Cole, like them."
The Chelsea head coach added: "With young players, most of the time you are a little bit worried because they play one game, two games, good game, they score and they think that they are already a top player. The good thing about Estevao is that we don’t need to be worried about that because he’s very humble, he’s very polite, he wants to work hard.
"He has a fantastic family, they are very close to him. And for me, personally, he’s fantastic because he’s a special player, but at the same time you don’t have to be worried.
"Now he's going to play one game, two games, score and he's already thinking that he knows how good he is. But the good thing is that he’s a very simple guy, a simple boy."
Enzo Fernandez can recognise just how special Estevao is and how much he already means to the Chelsea supporters. In the first-half, with the Blues 3-1 up at the time, they were awarded their second penalty of the game. Fernandez, who took their first one and scored, handed the ball to Estevao and that was met by one of the biggest cheers of the night, with the Chelsea supporters roaring the Brazil international on to score his second competitive goal for the club.
An elite showman does not disappoint and Estevao is exactly that.
