The score was 3-3 at half-time after a Tammy Abraham hat-trick for the hosts, but neither side was done there.

Villa eventually found themselves 5-4 up with just 10 minutes of normal time remaining, but Lewis Grabban had other ideas and levelled things up with his second of the game.

— Tom Victor (@tomvictor) November 28, 2018

The officials stayed on message too, with five minutes of stoppage time only adding to the tension.

Eventually the game ended with the scores level, and while games like Paris St Germain v Liverpool and Tottenham v Inter Milan looked like being the main events, they were upstaged by two old hands.

To award each side just one point seemed a little unfair after such a feast of entertainment.

Although spare a thought for both sides' social media teams who had to tweet the goals as they went in.

It might not have been the European night fans dream of, but there's no doubting what the game of the evening was.

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