Erik ten Hag's dinner date with Sir Alex Ferguson certainly did the trick.
Just 48 hours after tapping into the wisdom of Manchester United's greatest boss at a Cheshire restaurant, Ten Hag masterminded one of the great European wins at Old Trafford. Ferguson enjoyed plenty of those during his glittering 26-and-a-half year reign and pumped his fists high up in the stands when United scored the winner.
This was a seismic win for United, one which confirmed their re-emergence as a force in Europe after a decade of failure and self-recrimination. United's players celebrated wildly at the end, the bond between the squad and supporters now the strongest it has been in the post-Ferguson era.
