It will give the GB team further reason to fly home suitably encouraged about the future.
Suitably encouraged, Blackburn quickly forced Benítez's team on the back foot, Danny Graham drawing a save from Karl Darlow after connecting with Liam Feeney's cross.
Admittedly Newcastle will face somewhat tougher hurdles than Northampton, of League Two, in the coming months, but McClaren is suitably encouraged.
On came Romain Amalfitano and, suitably encouraged, the visitors from Madeira began zipping the ball around with pace and power as they pushed for an equaliser.
Suitably encouraged, George Friend dribbled forward from left-back – think Roberto Carlos with dashing good looks and a Devonian accent – dodging a couple of markers before letting himself down by shooting tantalisingly wide.
The game had barely kicked off when Kolarov turned Yanga-Mbiwa - deputising at right back for the suspended Mathieu Debuchy - inside out and, suitably encouraged, Pellegrini's players launched a series of increasingly menacing attacks down that flank.
Suitably encouraged, Johnson sent a shot crashing against the woodwork but it was not long before Elliot found himself retrieving the ball from the back of his net again.
Many companies have been driven to using consultants by a mixture of frustration and hope: frustration with having sunk millions into new computer systems without seeing any boost to productivity, and hope that, suitably encouraged, those productivity gains might yet materialise.
Bath now need to win both their tough final games against Leinster and Toulon, with at least one bonus point, to have a chance of qualifying but their coach, Mike Ford, was suitably encouraged by their collective guts and significant set-piece improvement.
