And while PSG could have led, Désiré Doué’s cut-back to Khvicha Kvaratskhelia being cut out by Cucurella when he might have taken the shot himself before his effort from the edge of the area was stopped by a superb low save from Sánchez, it was Chelsea who did.

Cole Palmer scored twice and fed João Pedro for a goal as Chelsea overwhelmed Paris Saint-Germain in the first half and beat the European champions 3-0 on Sunday in the final of the first expanded Clu...

To make matters worse, they had Joao Neves sent off late on after being spotted by VAR tugging on Marc Cucurella’s hair.