Jess Park provided a timely demonstration of her qualities as her superb, long-range goal capped off a confident individual performance that helped Manchester United progress to the Women’s Champions League quarter-finals with a resounding win over Atlético Madrid.

The German champions, Bayern Munich, will be Marc Skinner’s team’s quarter-final opponents, between 23 March and 1 April, with United reaching the last eight for the first time. That significant landmark for the club was fittingly accompanied by a special goal from Park, whose curling strike completed a 5-0 aggregate victory and boosted her chances of starting for England in March.

At the request of the match officials, the home side were wearing their black third kit rather than their traditional red home shirts, in a late change enforced by the unusual discovery that the Spanish side had travelled to England with only an orange goalkeeper kit, rather than a yellow one which had previously been approved. The orange strip was deemed to be too similar to United’s red. That would not ordinarily be particularly interesting, if this tie was on a knife edge, but it proved to be a welcome bit of pre-match drama for neutrals to help spice up...