Thomas Tuchel didn't expect to get too much sleep ahead of today's Champions League final between his Chelsea side and Manchester City in Porto.
In a little less than two hours, the German coach will watch as players attempt to win the biggest prize in European football.
Chelsea are the underdogs: given they finished 19 points behind City in the Premier League that is no big surprise. However, the Blues have registered two victories over Pep Guardiola's men in the past six weeks.
Tuchel and his players arrived in Portugal ahead of the final on Thursday. Yesterday they trained at the Estadio do Dragao before returning to their hotel for a squad dinner.
And Tuchel didn't envisage getting too much sleep after that.
Speaking in the match-day programme, the Chelsea head coach said: "Sleeping the night before [the final] is not guaranteed...as a coach you wake up pretty exhausted, thinking about solutions, line-ups, thinking about what to show, what not to show, when to do the sessions...
"Normally I take a nap, a deep sleep, after lunch, and then finally arrive pretty nervous and pretty excited.
"As a child, you dream of these matches and it's like watching the moon: it's so, so far away. But once you're in it, you're just in it; it's your work and you just do the work again.
"You cannot go back to being the little boy, even if you try."
In guiding Chelsea to the Champions League final a year after leading Paris Saint-Germain to the showpiece match of the European calendar, Tuchel made history in the competition: no coach had ever appeared in consecutive finals with two different teams.
"I feel very, very thankful to have this life, to be out there with this mix of excitement and pressure.
"That [record] is simply amazing but it doesn't change anything for me, because I wasn't aware I'm the first coach who's done that.
"It's about being the best in the moment, not creating some numbers or records, It's about now and tomorrow; enjoy and work hard for it."
