Perhaps Bayern's play never reached the dizzying heights of that first-leg master class on Wednesday night, but the side was still brutal in its efficiency.
Just as Britain's affable Tony Blair took care to keep a foul-mouthed master of dark arts, Alastair Campbell, at his side, so is it the calling of Mr Emanuel to bludgeon underlings at the White House and former colleagues in Congress into obeying his master's commandments.