This season, Cech has already faced his old club Rennes in the Europa League. It was due to his outstanding performance in Rennes that he left the French club to join Chelsea in 2004. Cech felt that it was destined to face his other old club Chelsea in the Europa League final. He said: "I laughed and said that we would go to Prague to play a game, then go to Rennes to play a game, and finally in the final. Chelsea. We had already faced Rennes and then when the quarter-final draw was announced and Arsenal and Chelsea didn't have to meet beforehand, you thought: 'Well, okay, that moment is going to come'.

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