As the Stadio Luigi Ferraris fell silent, Sandro Tonali swept his long, dark hair aside, raised his arm before scoring one of the finest goals of his career.
The goal, his first in Serie A, and subsequent clip, went viral despite Brescia going on to lose the game 3-1 in October.
Andrea Pirlo, the player that Tonali cannot seem to shake off comparisons to, often had a knack of producing the sublime from set-pieces. The supposed similarities went into overdrive once again.
Tonali has frequently insisted that his game does not line up to the Italy legend and last week, Pirlo gave his own verdict on the young man widely seen as his heir for the national side.
'He is very good but he is different from me on the pitch,' Pirlo told Gazzetta dello Sport.
'He has everything to be a champion but he is more a midfielder for a two-man midfield. He could already play for a great team; he is the best in this league.'
The hair remains and while both protest otherwise, the comparisons will continue as fans continue to raise the ceiling for what Tonali can go on to achieve.
Pirlo's opinions holds weight, he is not a man to trip over his own words and when he says Tonali is the best midfielder in the league, it is high praise indeed.
Whether he is the best midfielder in the league is something that can be debated. Brescia may be bottom of Serie A, but it is a legitimate debate.
Stefano Sensi has starred for Inter Milan while Sergej Milinkovic-Savic has stepped up in Lazio's title push this season. But both would have few complaints if it was Tonali who was anointed as the league's greatest - and at the age of 20, too.
While Jadon Sancho draws a number of admirers in Germany, it is becoming tougher and tougher to find a top side across Europe that isn't pushing to bring in Tonali this summer.
Barcelona, Juventus, Inter Milan, Liverpool and both Manchester City and United have been credited with interest. Their interest is not misplaced either, Tonali is a generational talent that is minding his own business in northern Italy.
Tonali joined Brescia - where Pirlo started his career, the comparisons are undeniable - and went into their youth system in 2012.
While not a shouter, Tonali was progressed to play above his age and was soon showing leadership skills those at the club had not seen in years among an academy prospect.
'He is always the leader,' a former Brescia official told Sportsmail back in November.
'He has everything to be a good captain in the future. He is doing the right things in the right way, at the right time, and now he just needs the time to grow up. I am not surprised that the top English clubs are looking at him.'
He made his professional debut for the club in 2017, aged 17, against Avellino in a Serie B match and then went on to play a starring role the following season as Brescia won promotion to Serie A.
The Serie B Player of the Year award followed and it was unanimous. Tonali, a tough tackler with the bite to his game that was devoid in Pirlo's aesthetic passing displays, was dominating games and his days of flying under the radar were long gone.
Growing up as an AC Milan fan, and likening his own game to Gennaro Gattuso, playing in Serie A would see just how developed the youngster was for the rough-and-tumble that comes with having skill around veterans.
But any suggestions he could be overwhelmed in the top-flight - for clarity, nobody in or around Italian footballer expected this - were dismissed almost instantly.
He has continued to impress in a struggling side and now he is a fish arguably too big for Brescia's pond.
The CIES Football Observatory ranked the most valuable youngsters in world football in March and surprisingly had Tonali valued at just £34million.
It will likely take an offer far superior to that this summer to prise him away from Brescia - even with the financial pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier this season, owner Massimo Cellino told Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport that it would take a world record offer of €300m to land Tonali.
'All the big Italian clubs, and abroad Atletico Madrid, PSG and Manchester City,' he said, when asked as to the suitors for the 20-year-old.
'But in my view, he'd be better off remaining with Brescia. The other day, his agent and his parents were telling me about this €50m evaluation. I replied that for me he is worth €300m, which means I don't want to sell.
'I have a dream. If Sandro accepts, I am ready to make a big financial sacrifice to extend his contract.'
Tonali is good, perhaps not £250m good, but Brescia know they have one of the finest young players in all of Europe in their hands. They hold the ace card and hope that the suitors will play a game of transfer poker to drive up the price.
Tonali is a full Italy international and will form the bedrock of the national team at the European Championships next summer, as well as at the World Cup in Qatar the following year.
And so, while he may not be a clone of the Pirlo that emerged from Brescia many years ago, Tonali is a player equally as exciting to watch and crucially, equally as valuable to sides chasing success.
Whether he ends up in the Premier League, at boyhood rivals Inter Milan to work with Antonio Conte, with Maurizio Sarri at Juventus or with Quique Setien and Lionel Messi at Barcelona, Tonali is a game-changer that is destined to deliver the highest level of success.