The striker might have scored against Manchester United, but his dream of scoring for the Red Devils would never come to fruition. And there was one trophy that would elude Sir Alex Ferguson during his final 15 years in charge of the Premier League giants. After losing to Lazio in the UEFA Super Cup in 1999, Manchester United would find themselves on the wrong end of a 2-1 defeat to Zenit St Petersburg nine years later. In a period of United dominance, both at home and abroad, that shock reverse at Monaco’s Stade Louis II would come to represent a rare blot on the Red Devils’ copybook. READ MO…
