Blackburn eased themselves back into the game the way experienced sides do after a goal.
They stopped chasing shadows, kept the ball moving, and tried to draw Wigan out of shape.
From the stands it looked controlled, like they weren't bothered about the goal.
On the pitch, it was anything but.
Wigan stuck to their shape, like a silent reaper waiting for Blackburn to slip up.
They held their lines and waited, and when the ball finally crossed into areas that mattered, it almost always ended up at Leo's feet.
Not by accident, either.
It was what Dawson had stated before the game.
"Find Leo, before the ball or your opponents find you!"
And so his teammates kept finding him early, trusting him to decide what came next.
"He's dictating things right now," the commentator noted, voice steady but impressed. "Everything is going through the youngster and it seems the loss of confidence we expected him to have from the Rotherham shutdown isn't happening."
