Then came Murphy's ninth-minute penalty when Gera was fouled by Ivan Ivanov, an offence so blatant there was no need for the extra official behind the goal, a trial for this game.
"When I first came to see the lawyers, I was prepared to reveal my name, my face and everything, but they advised me not to, saying I must think about my future," she said in the interview at her lawyer's office, explaining why she had testified from behind a screen throughout the trial.
So this was, to all intents and purposes, a trial behind closed doors.
Manbar was branded the country's 'biggest traitor' by former Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu after a trial behind closed doors.
There was the occasional screenplay: the romantic comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel And Laurence in 1998 for cinema; Metropolis, a thriller set among young urban professionals, for television in 2000; and in 2002 The Jury, a six-part series set behind the scenes at a trial.
Within days of May entering No 10, a group of scientists, including some of those behind a £50m trial conducted in 2007 that showed culling was not effective at reducing TB in cattle, called on her to end the "failed" policy.
After a trial held behind closed doors in August, the army announced the men were members of the Toheedwal Jihad Group, a little-known faction of the Pakistani Taliban.
In a trial, however, the reasoning behind their pitch must stand up to legal scrutiny.
The fifth victim was, at 16, the youngest to give evidence in the trial, speaking from behind a screen.
The principle behind an open trial is a contract with the public, and news outlets act as proxies.
