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Edinson Cavani of Manchester United celebrates with Paul Pogba (Getty)
It is not quite 7-1 but it’ll certainly do. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will travel to the Stadio Olimpico next week confident of avoiding a fifth consecutive semi-final exit as manager of Manchester United after a thumping 6-2 win over Roma, reminiscent of that emphatic victory against the same opposition under Sir Alex Ferguson all those years ago.
This was not as convincing as the United performance on that famous Champions League quarter-final in 2007. For starters, Solskjaer’s side went in at half time trailing 2-1 and that only tells part of the story. This was a silly game, filled with mistakes, mishaps and madcap passages of play but the chaos was turned in United’s favour by brilliant individual displays by Edinson Cavani and Bruno Fernandes.