United dreams quickly dashed

Bayern Munich 3 Manchester United 1 (Bayern Munich win 4-2 on aggregate)

With their challenge for a place in the Premier League’s top four all but over, David Moyes’s side needed to win the Champions League to book their place in next season’s competition. And they almost took a huge stride towards lifting the trophy here, taking the lead against Bayern through Patrice Evra’s emphatic opener in the second half, which put them 2-1 ahead on aggregate.

But the home side, the current holders of the trophy, responded less than half a minute later with the first of three rapid-fire goals to end United’s resistance and almost certainly keep them out of the Champions League next season for the first time since 1995.