It keeps the tension high ahead of the return leg with Bayern and maintains the state of permanent warfare under which Mourinho's teams tend to thrive.
The Argentine government and the Fund are close to a state of open warfare: as the IMF continues to insist that any rescue package for the country depends on commitment to urgent reform, the Argentine finance minister on September 24th threatened to default on the country's debt to the Fund.
He has also said that Britain cannot specialise in counter-insurgency warfare alone, but must be ready to fight state-on-state wars that necessarily require high-end equipment.