Chelsea won the all-English Champions League final for the second time on Saturday, beating Manchester City 1-0 thanks to Kai Havertz’s first-half goal.
Havertz ran onto Mason Mount’s through-ball and skipped by City goalkeeper Ederson Moraes before dropping the ball into an empty net in the 42nd minute.
Chelsea has now added to the first European cup it won in 2012 and become the 13th multiple winner of the world’s biggest club competition.
Manager Thomas Tuchel got his hands on the trophy a year after losing in the 2020 final with Paris Saint Germain.
City’s long, often-painful and lavishly funded journey to the summit of European football remains incomplete. Manager Pep Guardiola may well regret tinkering with his settled team by choosing to not start a specialist holding midfielder.
The move destabilized City, which was unrecognizable from the team that largely dominated English football this season, having already won the Premier League and the English League Cup.
