The Champions League is upon us and tommorrow Man Utd will face Portugese club Sporting Lisbon, the former club of Nani,Cristiano Ronaldo and Sir Alex Ferguson’s assistant Carlos Queiroz.

Head-to-heads

Sporting CP and Manchester United have met each other twice in European Cup football.

In the 1963-64 Cup Winners’ Cup, Sporting eliminated the Old Trafford club in the quarter-finals. After United won their home leg 4-1, Sporting bounced back big by them United 5-0 in the return, and went on to win the Cup, their only European trophy ever.

Here’s a video of that 4-1 win for United in the 1963-64 season

and here is the more recent gmae between the clubs, a friendly in 2003, the game which effectively sealed Cristiano Ronaldo’s move to Old Trafford

Match Preview by UEFA

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