Vidic keeps United dream alive

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Such are Moyes’s travails in his first year at the club, however, that the lead was not only scarcely deserved but also predictably short-lived before Bastian Schweinsteiger restored some order to the European football universe with an equaliser that leaves Bayern even greater favourites for a place in the Champions League semi-finals than they had been before last night’s kick-off.

Still, United fans — to paraphrase one of their own songs — can at least dream the impossible dream after Vidic slipped marker Jerome Boateng to send a superb, twisting seven-yard header flying past Manuel Neuer in the German goal from Wayne Rooney’s 59th-minute corner.