When Petr Cech comes to reflect on a 20-year career that could yet finish with a 15th winners' medal, he will finally allow himself to watch the best moment of all.

Cech will retire from playing at the end of this season, with his final appearance potentially coming in a Europa League final against the club with whom he won it all - Chelsea.

Arsenal hold a 3-1 lead from the first leg of their semi-final against Valencia ahead of Thursday night’s second leg in Spain, in which Cech is aiming to extend his career for one more big match.

The pinnacle for Cech was undoubtedly 2012, when the goalkeeper saved a penalty in extra-time from Arjen Robben and two in the shootout to clinch Chelsea’s famous Champions League final victory over Bayern Munich.

But, such has been the 36-year-old’s determination to keep pushing himself and to keep achieving, he has never allowed himself to relive the drama of seven years ago.

“I have to admit I’ve not watched the Champions League final,” said Cech. “I’ve never seen the game. I’ve seen a part of the shootout because my son was watching it. And then I was in a hotel with the Chelsea team at dinner and there was a Champions League show on the TV and it went back to that.