What a strange game of football it was. Manchester United visiting Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena for the first leg of their quarter final encounter. If there was any hint of déjà vu, it was heavily stacked in Bayern's favour at the end of the game. 90 minutes of really good attacking prowess against error-prone defending. For Sir Alex Ferguson, there were a few bitter pills to swallow. He'd be left wondering how his defence was callously dismantled after keeping Bayern at bay for 70 minutes. And of course, Rooney's continued trysts with injury as the days of reckoning draw closer.
The away goal must provide a flicker of hope. With or without Rooney. Sir Alex would've learnt from the whole Cristiano Ronaldo episode, that to win trophies, you need a team that can play together. If United can put it past Bayern at Old Trafford, I've got my money on them to go all the way. At the moment, there's daylight between them and a place in the semis. But they have a week to tip the scales back to parity. One thing's for sure, you can never ever write off Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (CBE). Not with 34 pieces of silverware sitting on his shelf.
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