RVP Out for upto 6 weeks

BREAKING: Following further investigation, Robin van Persie has a sprained knee, which will keep him out for around four to six weeks. #mufc

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) March 21, 2014

David vs Goliath

The Champions League draw for the quarter finals is complete, there's been plenty of reaction to Utd being drawn against Bayern Munich. 

Mostly is been resignation that United will have a massive task to get through over the 2 legs, Bayern are reigning champions, run away leaders in the bundesliga and with Pep Guardiola in charge, are playing supreme exciting football. 

Here are a tiny sample of the tweets from Utd fans:

United v Bayern then. Oh well, gotta beat the best to be the best
— Shaun (@ShaunMUFC20) March 21, 2014

Hey, there’s always next season….oh….right...
— Full Time DEVILS (@FullTimeDEVILS) March 21, 2014

Bayern will be overwhelming favourites, but football is a funny game. Let's just hope we put up a fight.
— Red Rants (@Red_Rants) March 21, 2014

Do we get a head start in that game say 5 goals?
— kris dunn (@bigdunny82) March 21, 2014

Plenty of fans are also drawing on our past meetings with Bayern, not least the 1999 final, but both teams are very different in contrasting ways from those teams. 

More recent was the 4-4 match at the same stage in 2010, where a 74th minute Robben strike put them through on away goals, again even only 4 years ago the 2 teams were both different from today's. 

Bayern have hit the crest of a wave, even beating Barcelona 7-0 on agg on the way to winning last year's competition. Bayern will clearly be favourites to get to the next stage, but football can and does throw up odd results.

Champions League victory over Olympiakos can be the turning point for United, says Rooney

Wayne Rooney claims Manchester United's Champions League fightback against Olympiakos was owed to beleaguered manager David Moyes by the club's under-performing players.

United overturned a 2-0 first-leg deficit against the Greek champions to qualify for the quarter-finals following a hat-trick by Robin van Persie in Wednesday's 3-0 victory at Old Trafford.

With the win coming just three days after the 3-0 humiliation at home to Liverpool - a defeat which left Moyes's position in grave danger - United eased the mounting pressure on the former Everton manager.