The Cypriot side came to frustrate us at Stamford Bridge and for large parts of the evening they succeeded. Their goalkeeper Jay Gorter made several impressive stops, while ahead of him the Pafos backline regularly threw themselves in front of Chelsea efforts to keep us at bay. We were also denied an early opener when Enzo Fernandez’s header was disallowed for a foul that Rosenior believed was harsh.

However, 12 minutes from time, Caicedo made the breakthrough to hand us three precious Champions League points.

‘You have to keep banging on the door,’ said Rosenior.

‘Obviously you want to get the breakthrough earlier to open up the game. I felt it was a harsh decision on Enzo. Maybe he puts his hands on him but in the Premier League it’s probably a goal.

‘You just have to keep going. There are things I was pleased with, things we need to improve on, but overall we kept going. They were making block after block, save after save, and I was delighted for Moi to get the goal and the result we deserved.’

The win leaves us in eighth position in the league phase table ahead of matchday eight, when we travel to Italy to play Napoli.

There are eight teams on 13 points with goal difference separating them, so it is bound to be tight come full-time next Wednesday. Rosenior assessed the current standings.

‘Of course you want to score more goals and win by bigger margins, but the reality of our situation is we are in the top eight. If we win we have a fantastic chance to go through.

‘We have a very difficult game against Crystal Palace on Sunday that we need to prepare for first, and then we will assess the game against Napoli and how we go about it. We know it will be a difficult game, but we are not daunted by that prospect.’