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Man United crush Athletic dreams in Bilbao on best night of Ruben Amorim’s reign
A few hundred metres from the Guggenheim Museum, Manchester United painted an unlikely, unforgettable picture of their own. It felt more surrealist than modern art but a team who had been failing and floundering at home, who risked being officially the worst United side in decades, entered one of the most intimidating atmospheres any of them will encounter, went 3-0 up in the first half of a European semi-final and dominated. Nothing, Ruben Amorim had said, could save their season, but that was before the best night of his reign, before a return to the Champions League, which once looked a pipe dream, felt all too real. Before this.
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