ECL - Deadly Little Pea

In the end there were two moments of pure fantasy and other times when Didier Deschamps might have had a point about this Manchester United side.

They did look inferior to their more recent predecessors and they almost suffered as a consequence. But the reality is this: Sir Alex Ferguson has guided his men through to the last eight of the Champions League for a fifth successive season and Marseille, for all their efforts here at Old Trafford, are out.

United go into Friday's quarterfinal draw because of a quite wonderful fifth minute goal that was created by the excellent Wayne Rooney and then converted by Javier Hernandez, who combined so effectively with the Englishman