Thomas Tuchel has been hugely impressed by what he has seen after revealing Chelsea have been practising penalties ahead of Saturday’s Champions League final against Manchester City.

The Blues boss said he has “never seen anything like” the quality of the squad’s training-pitch penalties – with all 20 takers finding the net.

Villarreal sunk Manchester United 11-10 in a remarkable Europa League final shootout on Wednesday, with goalkeeper Geronimo Rulli blasting home the winning spot-kick.

“They create and he creates this team with this huge belief, and this huge success, and continuously winning mentality.

“So they are maybe at the moment the strongest team in Europe and maybe in the world, and they have a huge gap, they have built a huge gap between them and us in the league.

“But we closed the gap for 90 minutes in Wembley, we closed the gap for 90 minutes at City, and this is what we want to do tomorrow.”