The pressure first told in the 50th minute when the ball bounced off Pronay Halder's arm after yet another cross created confusion in the JFC box. Jason Cummings (who had 10 shots at goal on the night - another record) stroked it home calmly and Bagan got back to the business of hammering. Knowing that Jamshedpur would be comfortable deep in their own box, Molina had asked his players to take shots whenever they found some space, no matter how far out, and as the match meandered towards a boredom-heightening extra time period, Apuia remembered that message.

Picking the ball up twenty-five odd yards out, he calmly collected himself before unleashing a curler that was simply too well hit to be stopped. There it was - one those in maroon and green waking up and scoring a magical goal. 94th minute, Mohun Bagan leading 2-0 on the night, 3-2 on aggregate. Job done.

They came into this ISL semifinal a goal down, knowing that Jamshedpur would park a bus or ten in their box, knowing that they'll just have to keep hammering at the away side till something gave. So that's exactly what they did.

At the end of the ninety they had taken an astonishing 35 shots on goal, the joint most ever in the history of the league. They had made 259 passes just in the final third (an ISL record), entered the JFC box 71 times (another record), and forced JFC into 53 clearances (also a record). "We have to shoot, it doesn't matter from outside, inside. We have to finish the action," was the instruction from Jose Molina, Bagan head coach, and his players followed it to the T.