Champions League team of the season: Lamine Yamal, Harry Kane … and a Spurs player

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Spurs managed to finish fourth in the group stage, and Porro’s skills as an overlapping full-back were to the fore, such that he has recently been linked with a return to Manchester City, where he spent three years as part of the club’s loan army.Centre-back: Alessandro Bastoni (Inter)Although this season will be remembered as the one where Bastoni’s red card in the playoff against Bosnia wrecked Italy’s chances of making the World Cup, he remains his nation’s best defender. He was assigned to Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal in that quarter-final and lived to tell the tale even when the teenager was showing off his full array of tricks.Morten Hjulmand was a key ingredient in Sporting’s Champions League run.

He scored a spectacular group-stage goal against PSG, leaving their goalkeeper, Lucas Chevalier, flat-footed with the venom of his shot.Central midfielder: Dominik Szoboszlai (Liverpool)The postscript to Liverpool’s unhappy season was Arne Slot’s departure on Saturday, although few others escaped with credit. His opening goal set the tone for a rare Liverpool high point.Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s blend of orthodox wing play and power made him among the competition’s best this season.

Bodø/Glimt’s Hauge was one of the season’s stars. Over the season, his bewildering mix of orthodox left-wing play and the explosive power he generates places “Kvaradonna” above the rest.Right-wing: Lamine Yamal (Barcelona)Injuries and growing pains slowed the progress of football’s most exciting talent this season, but there have been enough shards of brilliance to make him an inevitable choice here.