“I’ll bring something here,” said Mats Hummels when he joined Prime Video’s expert team after the game. His coach Edin Terzić was trying to explain how his team had managed to reach the Champions League final when his defender put one reason on the table: the trophy that UEFA awarded to the best player in their opinion Player of the game awards. Mats Hummels got it. Just like in the first leg.
Hummels, 35 years old, stood there and looked as surprised as everyone else. Maybe even a little more. At the beginning of the year he only made short appearances under Edin Terzić, and he even had to watch some games from the bench. And now he was talking about the Wembley final ahead of him and one of the games of his life behind him.
