4) Dejan Savicevic in 1994 (AC Milan 4-0 Barcelona)
This final was supposed to be one for the ages as Johan Cruyff’s Barcelona ‘Dream Team’ took on AC Milan who had last won it back-to-back in 1989 and 1990. Milan had also lost the 1993 final and the Rossoneri were looking to make amends.
What followed was a systematic dismantling of Cruyff’s Barcelona as Milan scored at regular intervals to keep the scoreboard ticking. Such was the dominance of the team that the likes of Pep Guardiola, Ronald Koeman, Hristo Stoichkov, and Romario had no answer to Milan’s overall superiority.
The score read 2-0 at half-time thanks to a first-half brace from Daniele Massaro. As if a 2-0 deficit in a final wasn’t bad enough, Barcelona never got going and lost the plot two minutes into the second half.
Pouncing on an error when Miguel Angel Nadal failed to clear the ball, Savicevic picked his pocket, allowed the ball to bounce and then lobbed Andoni Zubizarreta from the edge of the box. The ball looped over the desperately diving goalkeeper and into the goal to effectively seal the tie.
