Juventus is even money to win their first Champions League trophy since 1996 after defeating free-scoring Monaco 4-1 on aggregate after another scintillating display from Dani Alves.

Serie A might be a shoddy claptrap of a league singed by match fixing allegations of the past and a host of teams that wouldn’t challenge Gillingham to a decent game. But that hasn’t stopped Juventus from competing at the very highest level in world football.

The Old Lady reached their second Champions League final in the past three years after putting free-scoring Monaco to bed in Turin last night.

The French league leaders, who have scored more goals (150) than any other team in Europe except Real Madrid (158) and Barcelona (160), were blitzed in a first half dominated by the team who has won Serie A in each of the past five seasons.