The Champions League final is one of the biggest games on the planet, and it's featured some of the best players too.
Great players who have run the gamut of performance levels, from baffling bottle jobs to Man of the Match displays.
Below is list of all 10 Man of the Match award winners from each Champions League final last decade.
1 - Diego MilitoInter 2-0 Bayern Munich, 2010
Looking like Jon Hamm's less fortunate brother, Diego Milito played the 2010 Champions League final in ways even Don Draper would struggle to express.
The big target man was his side's sole attacking outlet, a role he revelled in as he scored twice (to go with his goals that won Serie A and the Coppa Italia) to seal Inter and Italian football's first ever treble.
A heroic act that went unrewarded at the Ballon d'Or ceremony that year, confirming the award's detachment from reality.
2 - MessiBarcelona 3-1 Manchester United, 2011
Messi, playing as a false nine, was Barcelona's chief architect in the most comprehensive and spectacular destruction in Champions League final history since 1960.
The score was 3-1, but the chasm between the two sides would leave Jupiter hollowed out like a half-eaten apple, and Messi was digging!
It was a supernova of a performance. At once quiet, serene, and utterly ferocious. This game was a monument to Messi's magnificence: he had marked history. Football now exists in two periods: before and after the devastation that Messi and Barcelona wrought on Manchester United.
3 - DrogbaChelsea 1-1 Bayern (4-3 pens), 2012
Didier Drogba didn't play well against Bayern Munich, others were better as the Germans laid siege to the Chelsea goal.
But when the time came for a hero, he was there.
In stoppage time, he rose to head home Juan Mata's corner, saving the Blues from what would have been a thoroughly deserved loss. Then came penalties, and having wrecked his side's chances back in 2008 by getting sent off, Drogba stepped up and with his last kick for the football club he loved (well, it should have been) the big man buried Bayern and gave Chelsea the greatest night of their life.
4 - RobbenBayern 2-1 Borussia Dortmund, 2013
Back in the day, Arjen Robben was considered a bit of a bottler.
His appalling displays in the 2010 World Cup final (missing a 1v1) and 2012 Champions League final (missing a penalty) were positive proof of this. So when the ball fell to him, 1v1 with Roman Weidenfeller at Wembley with just one minute left on the clock, everyone knew he'd miss. He'd already missed a similar opportunity in the game after all.
Except he didn't miss. He tiptoed around Dortmund bodies (as he did on the hour-mark when he set up the opening goal for Mario Mandzukic) and slotted the ball into the back of the net, giving Bayern Munich their first ever treble victory.
5 - Di MariaReal Madrid 4-1 Atletico Madrid (AET), 2014
Real Madrid beat Atlético Madrid in the 2014 final in a truly bizarre game.
The “hero” was clearly Sergio Ramos, whose stoppage-time equaliser saved Madrid from defeat. Gareth Bale took the glory with the go-ahead goal, Cristiano Ronaldo took all the front pages with his shirtless antics and Diego Costa became a villain for insisting he could play when he obviously couldn't.
But it was Angel Di Maria who was the best player on the park for the whole game, constantly driving Madrid forward and doing his best to break the incredible Atleti defence (in the end he did manage just that, setting up Bale's goal after some sublime skill). His reward for these feats? They sold him to make room for James Rodriguez.
6 - IniestaBarcelona 3-1 Juventus, 2015
Andrés Iniesta was supreme in Berlin as Barcelona ran Juventus into the ground, winning the Champions League and sealing a historic second treble for the Blaugrana.
The diminutive playmaker was far from the only excellent performer on the night (Leo Messi and Gerard Piqué were superb) but it was his excellent movement, control and pass that allowed Ivan Rakitic to open the scoring just three minutes into the game.
That made him the first ever man to assist a goal in three different Champions League finals.
It also set the tone and allowed Iniesta to calmly run the show from the middle of the park.
7 - RamosReal Madrid 1-1 Atlético Madrid (5-3 pens), 2016
Two years after his Champions League final heroics in 2014, Sergio Ramos was at it again.
In Milan, he scored the game's opening goal (though he was clearly offside) before defending magnificently for the rest of the game.
His tactical foul in stoppage time prevented a surefire winner for Atleti, and tilted the extra time advantage towards Los Blancos. Ramos even had the nerve to step up and convert a penalty in the shootout.
8 - Cristiano RonaldoReal Madrid 4-1 Juventus, 2017
Real Madrid were trying to retain the Champions League, something no one had done in almost 30 years, and they were facing a team who simply didn't really concede all that much.
So, of course, it took Champions League goalscoring centurion Cristiano Ronaldo just 20 minutes to knock one into the back of the net. And he didn't stop there, sealing the tie and turning a win into a massacre with his second just after the hour mark. These goals made him the first-ever player to score in three different finals.
9 - Gareth BaleReal Madrid 3-1 Liverpool, 2018
Gareth Bale has had a perplexing career at Real Madrid where he's never been really appreciated by the Madridistas despite nearly always producing big moments in their most-cherished competition: the Champions League. The greatest of these moments came in the 2018 final.
Bale came off the bench on the hour with the score at 1-1 and proceeded to score two goals of superhuman quality. The first saw him thunder in an overhead kick, a genius goal that came out of nowhere to stop Liverpool dead in their tracks. Not satisfied there, he unleashed a 25-yard piledriver into the back of the net (with the help of some poor Loris Karius goalkeeping) to kill the game at 3-1 and secure Madrid's historic third consecutive Champions League trophy.
10 - Van DijkLiverpool 2-0 Tottenham, 2019
Liverpool vs. Spurs was not a memorable final as both sides got somewhat nervous and never fully committed to giving us the all-out attack-fest we hoped for.
But at least in part that was down to the excellent defending from the centre-backs, in particular Virgil van Dijk.
The world's most expensive defender proved his worth by utterly dominating the Spurs attack. In the air, on the deck, running in behind or organising set-pieces; there wasn't a question Mauricio Pochettino's side could pose that Van Dijk didn't already have the answer for.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com