Atletico Madrid were guilty of wasting chances across the two legs, but United carried grit and ruthlessness to ultimately run out 5-0 winners on aggregate, even as injuries and illness in the squad made the circumstances even more challenging.
“If there’s any team that can be stretched and still keep winning, it’s us,” Skinner said at his press conference following our victorious second leg in Leigh.
“Our team believe in each other. I’ve said this a million times, but there’s a thread between our team even at our most stretched and it’s a golden thread most teams would die for.