"Would be greatest Champions League victory, bar none" – Manchester United fans surprisingly confident about Barcelona

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It's comfortably the toughest draw in the Champions League quarter-finals for Manchester United – but heck, at least it wasn't City. 

That fate befell poor Tottenham, who won't particularly relish the chance to face Pepe Guardiola's mob three times in the space of 12 April days.

United, meanwhile, have renewed vivgour about them after their sensational last-gasp victory over PSG in the last 16, becoming the first team in UEFA competition history to overturn a 2-0 first-leg home defeat thanks to Marcus Rashford's VAR-assisted penalty.

Funnily, enough, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's Manchester United have quite the different feel about them to Jose Mourinho's Manchester United (Richard Jolly with something excellent on that yesterday, by the way). 

Having toppled the Parisians against all odds, United fans are seemingly more optimistic about their prospects than at any other time since Alex Ferguson retired in 2013. So here's a general mood from what's being chatted about post-draw...

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See what we mean? 

Joe Brewin

Joe was the Deputy Editor at FourFourTwo until 2022, having risen through the FFT academy and been on the brand since 2013 in various capacities. 

By weekend and frustrating midweek night he is a Leicester City fan, and in 2020 co-wrote the autobiography of former Foxes winger Matt Piper – subsequently listed for both the Telegraph and William Hill Sports Book of the Year awards.