Man Utd Hope Europa League -victory leads to Prem Glory Like Cup Winners Cup Triumph Triumph Triumph

Manchester United will hope that winning a European trophy can be the springboard to success in the long-term network as it was for them 34 years ago.

It was perhaps only the Cup Winners’ Cup, but the players who defeated Barcelona on a famous evening in Rotterdam in 1991, deserved their place in Club Folklore.

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And it was an important step in the direction of creating the shimmering era that followed Sir Alex Ferguson for two decades.

They supported that success with two more pots the next season and then ended up, in 1993, their 26-year-old waiting to be crowned top champions.

Of United Now looking for another piece of UEFA silver work in The Europa League final against Tottenham on Wednesday eveningNostalgia has been in the air around Old Trafford.

The club recently produced A replica of the iconic white kit Worn on that rainy night in the Feyenoord stadium.

They even received two of their last heroes – Bryan Robson and Mark Hughes – to model it alongside current star Bruno Fernandes, Kobbie Mainoo, Leny Yoro and Manuel Ugarte.

MUTV made a documentary called Rotterdam revised to remember that special evening.

Long -term defender Denis Irwin, 59, said the show: “We grew like a team, but that trophy played a major role.

“As a team and a club we moved in the right direction.

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“The following year we won the League Cup and Super Cup and the following year we finally won the Premier League.”

The legendary ex-skipper Robbo, 68, added: “For me, the only thing that improved the success of that cup winner cup was improved 1992-93 when we won the competition title.

“Of course it was the biggest game I played. From 1990 we won the FA Cup, we grew all the time and the confidence was there and by 1993-94 we did double.”

Fast forward almost 3½ decades and Ruben Amorim’s Men hope to follow in their footsteps.

Just like Sparky and Co, they can build on winning the FA Cup last season with another trophy.

Even the most fervent United fan would have difficulty believing that the current crop will agree by winning the Prem title in the coming years.

But Europe Glory would be an essential step forward – earning a lucrative place in the Champions League of next season, as well as a third trophy in three seasons.

But if they fail, there will be no European football next season – and that would be difficult for United fans to swallow.

One thing that made the 1991 Triumph so special was that they had spent five years from the UEFA competition, due to a ban on English clubs after the Heysel disaster.

Fergie’s men closed along Hungarian Pecsi Munkas in the first round and then defeated Wrexham.

The only thing that beaked the success of that cup winners was 1992-93 when we won the league title

Bryan Robson

They pulled the first stage of their quarterfinals against Montpellier 1-1 before the free kick by Clayton Blackmore helped them to win 2-0 in France.

A 3-1 win in Legia Warsaw made the semi-final second stage something of a formality and made sure they booked a place in the final against Barcelona.

Even then the Catalan giants had an aura about them, but Fergies The preparations had been sketchy to say the least.

Almost the only thing he told his players was that they had to stop Ronald Koeman – and he used Brian McClair to keep an eye on the Dutchman.

Irwin said: “The preparatory work was completely different at the time. You would not know much about the opposition before you went out and played against them.”

Robson remembered: “The only thing the boss really said about them was” Koeman. “Because he starts everything and the keeper passes to him.”

The tactic worked as the first half was largely forgetting.

Halfway through the second half, Robson’s free kick goalwards became Steve Bruce, but Hughes squeezed to tap the line and take the glory.

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The United Skipper, 64, said: “It went exactly in the corner – but then an inch outside the line, Sparky scored it.”

Bruce, the top scorer of United that season, added: “Everyone jumped on me and not Sparky, so you know who scored it. It would have been my 20th of the season and a center half!”

There was no doubt that the second received a few minutes later when Hughes held on to a Robson pass, the keeper went around and entered from a narrow angle.

It was a sweet moment for Sparky – who had received the door a few years earlier through Barca.

The men of Johan Cruyff pulled a goal back through Koeman and came in a mustache hair to bring it to extra time.

But United held on to a costly first European trophy in 23 years.

Jubble supporters sang in the rain for a long time, which the James classic slammed sit down, as well as Monty Python’s always on the positive side of life.

This season it was sometimes difficult to sometimes see a Flightside at Old Trafford.

But on Wednesday evenings are United Face Prem Strugglers Spurs in Bilbao.

So they can still end a troubled campaign with a big price – and that can be the start of something much bigger.

Just ask the class of 91.

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