2019–20 UEFA Champions League Best XI

11. Manuel Neuer - Bayern Munich

Already talked about as being one of the great goalkeepers of the modern era, there were a couple of murmurs at the start of the 2019/20 campaign that Manuel Neuer was over the hill and starting to decline.

Fast forward to his man of the match display in the final against PSG and those murmurs have been well and truly put to bed. Hailed as 'taking goalkeeping to a new level' by opposition boss Thomas Tuchel, Neuer didn't put a foot wrong over the course of ninety minutes. He made three saves inside his own box, including an unbelievable stop when Kylian Mbappe was a yard offside, and even chipped in with fifty touches, thirty accurate passes and eight successful long balls.

The final might have been labelled as a battle between two potent attacks pre-game, but it was Neuer's performance that really stole the show.

However, all of this isn't to say that Neuer was anything short of exceptional across the rest of the campaign. Playing in all eleven of the Bayern's European games Neuer kept six clean sheets in total, with two of them coming in consecutive games against Lyon in the semis and then against PSG in the final. He's also only the third keeper, after Peter Schmeichel and Iker Casillas, to lift the Champions League as the captain of his side.

With the foot injury that saw him ruled out of an entire season now firmly behind him, Neuer looks set to reclaim his title as the world's best keeper.