| Jose Mourinho endured anything but a special night at Old Trafford
as Manchester United continued their remarkable season by reaching
the Champions League quarter-finals with a 2-0 win over Inter Milan.
Five years ago, Sir Alex Ferguson felt Porto fluked their way to
a two-legged success at exactly the same stage of the competition,
and that was the result which launched Mourinho's career.
This time, United were the team who carried the good fortune as
goals at the beginning of each half from Nemanja Vidic and Cristiano
Ronaldo proved enough to cast aside a mistake-riddled performance
from which Inter should have profited.
Victory keeps the Red Devils on course for an unprecedented quintuple
and, to Ferguson's satisfaction, allowed him to record a second
win in 14 head-to-head duels with Mourinho as, in front of FIFA
president Sepp Blatter, the cream of England proved too strong for
the best of Italy.
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