Jonathan Wilson: Pressure lightens, albeit slightly, off David Moyes after Olympiakos

[Jonathan Wilson]

This was, by some margin, the greatest night in David Moyes's career as manager of Manchester United. Given that things have been going so badly recently that glancing down and realizing he's put his shoes on the right feet must come as a relief, that might sound like damning with faint praise, but overhauling a two-goal deficit is an achievement worth celebrating - even if it took a genuinely dreadful performance to go down 2-0 to Olympiakos in the first leg. A 3-0 victory showed character and more attacking spark than United have demonstrated all year, and a hat-trick from Robin van Persie suggested reports of his decline may have been exaggerated.

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