Ruben Amorim knows this Man United team too well - what he said before Athletic Bilbao proves it

Don't cancel those hotel rooms. Don't sell those flights. Don't swap those Euros back. Manchester United are going back to Bilbao, but what should have been a comfortable night of celebration at Old Trafford turned into a fraught, tense affair. Ruben Amorim had said on Wednesday that they would have to suffer to reach a European final, but there's suffering, and then there's this.

For a 15-minute spell at the start of the second half, it genuinely felt like it could all go wrong. If their 3-0 win in Bilbao last week was a pleasant surprise, this was a return to the norm. No wonder Amorim's first words after last week's win were a warning that this wasn't done yet. He already knows this team too well.

On paper, this result and the aggregate score of 7-1 look like a walk in the park, and at times it was. But it also felt far, far closer than that. Three goals in 15 minutes in Bilbao and three goals in 13 minutes in Manchester made all the difference for United.

They were ruthless in punishing Ernesto Valverde's side last week, and after a nervous beginning and had Athletic not been without Nico and Inaki Williams at Old Trafford, they might not have got away with what was a desperately poor performance until the final quarter of the game.

All of that will be for another day, but you can be sure Amorim won't forget that spell when his team was toiling and supporters were fearing those early bookings for the final were going to be costly.

On a day when white smoke billowed from the Vatican, it was red smoke drifting across the Old Trafford pitch just before kick-off after another pre-match pyrotechnic display.

The swift election of a new pope ended the conclave and allowed the cardinals to emerge from their retreat and back