It's February 9, 2019, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United are making it 11 wins and a draw from 12 games with a 3-0 thrashing of Fulham, while Anthony Martial is electric next to the Thames.
This was still the honeymoon period for Solskjaer, when everything the Norwegian touched turned to gold. Martial scored in that win at Craven Cottage and all looked rosy for United.
It's been hard going since, but Martial has been one of the positives for Solskjaer and United, yet that afternoon in the capital is still an anomaly for the French forward. It's the last time he scored a goal from open play when he wasn't playing alongside Marcus Rashford.
Martial looked to be sliding towards the Old Trafford exit door at the end of last season, but he was handed the No. 9 shirt in the summer and Solskjaer placed his faith in him. He has generally repaid that, leading the line well if not scoring quite the quantity of goals you would expect for someone wearing that shirt.
Yet of his 12 goals for the club since the strike at Fulham, 11 have come in tandem with Rashford and one was a penalty, in the win at Partizan Belgrade.
Martial and Rashford have both been positives for United this season, but they've worked in tandem and not always shone as individuals. When Martial was out injured earlier in the season it coincided with Rashford's toughest spell of the campaign. Now Rashford is out the burden is on Martial to supply the goals.
This was an ominous start against a disciplined Burnley side who never looked like being breached once they'd taken the lead. United's chances came before they went behind to Chris Wood's opener, with Martial failing to connect cleanly with an inviting Aaron Wan-Bissaka cross and then taking too many touches when a clever Juan Mata dummy sent him clear from Nemanja Matic's pass.
United's attack has, at times, looked blistering this season, but the depth is lacking and it's exposed as soon as one of the two key men are taken out of the team.
Martial's last eight goals this season have come in games where Rashford has also scored. Field them together and they look a dynamic duo, play them on their own and the penetration leaves United's attack.
There is primarily an issue of depth, an issue United have been aware of since the summer, when Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez were both allowed to join Inter Milan. It was a gamble that injuries would leave them short in attack and now that's happening.
And there are clearly bigger issues in this squad than the returns of Martial, who has been a positive, yet wearing United's No. 9 shirt comes with a burden and he needs to prove he can live up to it. Goals are required, and not just when his partner in crime is with him, distracting defenders and creating space.
Solskjaer has made the right decision to play Martial through the middle and Rashford from the left and they have dovetailed well, but over the next two months Martial will have to do it on his own.
His cause isn't helped by Daniel James' loss of form. The winger is clearly in need of a rest, yet United's lack of options in a front three make that an impossibility at the moment.
But United strikers before Martial have had to negotiate spells when their regular supply line is injured or out of sorts. They have usually found a way to keep plundering goals.
The current incumbent of that No. 9 shirt needs to prove he can do the same while Rashford recuperates.