Eric Cantona vs Porto FC | 1996/97 Champions League QF

Many consider this game to be a watershed moment for Fergie's Manchester United. After years of struggling in Europe, English club finally managed to get not only a win, but a proper battering of their opponent.

Finally, it seemed, Ferguson had found a way to replicate Cantona’s domestic influence. Before that, Eric Cantona, that vivid symbol of United’s domestic authority, would somehow always become subliminal, and marginalised from the play with his back to goal. But in this game he scored the second goal and he was at the heart of the third and fourth; the carved, outside-of-the-right ball at the beginning of the move from which Giggs made it 3-0 was one of the prettiest passes of his career. At one point, Ron Atkinson even reproached him on commentary for a ludicrous flick, the kind that he only played when he felt he owned the pitch.

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