Five months after being sacked by PSG, Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel lifted the Champions League, beating master tactician Pep Guardiola once more.

Mid-season appointment

A 1-0 win in Porto rounded off a rollercoaster year for the German, who was handed Chelsea’s reins less than a month after losing his job in Paris. Chelsea were ninth in the Premiership table then with owner Roman Abramovich seeing little return on his GBP 220 million outlay on new players under Frank Lampard. In fact, Tuchel had never met the Russian billionaire until Saturday.