Chelsea went into today’s showpiece event at Wembley Stadium with an unbeaten Women’s Super League campaign and the League Cup already in the bank.

Win today and the Blues end the domestic season unbeaten and that is exactly what we did, to claim our first Treble since 2021.

Bompastor said: ‘The feeling is great. It is sometimes difficult to describe them with words but it feels really great. This season has been tough so for us to be as domestically dominant as we have been, we really need to enjoy it.

‘All the credit to my players because they performed really well. We showed our mentality and our values in this game so we ended the season in an almost perfect scenario – we won, we were playing at Wembley, the stadium was nearly sold out and we had a strong performance and result against a strong opponent, so it is an almost ideal way to finish the season.’

Our only defeats this season were in the Champions League quarter-final against Manchester City – which we overturned – and the semi-final loses to Barcelona.

And Bompastor added: ‘In terms of results, we had almost the ideal season. We only dropped six points in the league and we won the FA Cup and the League Cup so when you analyse the results, I think it's ideal and almost the perfect season.’

Manchester United started today’s game well, without really troubling Hannah Hampton, before the Blues took control and posed the greater threat.

When Erin Cuthbert was brought down shortly before half-time, it allowed Sandy Baltimore to convert the spot-kick and we never looked like relinquishing that lead.

United rallied early in the second period but we made sure of the victory with a thumping header from Catarina Macario six minutes from time before Baltimore smashed in a second during injury-time.

Bompastor said: ‘In the first ten minutes we struggled a little bit. When you play these kind of games – a final, a sold-out stadium, the atmosphere – even if you have a lot of experience in your squad, sometimes you stress a little bit. It is okay to have the pressure, but sometimes when it's too high, you don't start the way we want it to start, but after that we were confident enough to turn things around.

‘I think after the first 10 minutes, we were a better team, we were stronger, and we deserved to win today. We were in control of the game almost for the rest of the game.’

Chelsea have played with four in defence for most of this season but Bompastor switched to three at the back for our final WSL game against Liverpool and did the same again today.

The formation helped the Blues enjoy two-thirds of the possession and pose a much greater attacking threat than United.

Bompastor decided to shift the praise on to her players and her staff when asked about the formation change during her post-match press conference.

She said: ‘Being a manager is sometimes tough and it is why I mention when it's working that all the credit goes to the players – it is important for me to just give clarity on the game plan going into every game because it brings them a lot of confidence.

‘I want to mention my assistant coaches, Camille Abily and Theo Rivrin, because we probably know a lot when we go into a game, what we need to do with the system, with the organisation in the team, defensively and offensively, and we knew from after the Liverpool game that this is the way we wanted to play today for different reasons.

‘I'm not going to give all the details away because I want to keep some secrets for next season, but we started to work from Tuesday until Saturday on this system and on all the details, defensively and offensively, where we could hurt Man United.

‘When you are able to do that all through the week, with different training sessions, it brings confidence to the players, and they know exactly what they need to do in every position and as a team.

‘There were not a lot of differences from Liverpool, but there were still some differences which were really important for us to cause more trouble to Man United.’

Bompastor arrived at Chelsea as a serial winner, lifting league titles and Champions Leagues both as a player and a head coach.

She arrived at a Chelsea side who had claimed the previous five WSL crowns and had also lifted five Women’s FA Cup during the last decade, with several players also enjoying major success such as Champions League wins and lifting the European Championship away from the Blues.

But even with such quality and experience both on the pitch and in the dugout, Bompastor did not think it would go quite as good as this so quickly.

She said: ‘I’m not sure I expected to achieve this in my first season at Chelsea because I knew I was coming into such a strong league, a competitive league. Even though I knew I was coming into a club with a lot of ambitions, for you in your first season to be able to adjust to knowing everything about the club, the players, the squad, the staff, it's tough, and you need to do that as quickly as you can and at the same time, perform in terms of results with your team.

‘So yeah, I could not have expected this. It is almost ideal in terms of domestic dominance.’