Giggs fears 'one-season wonder' tag

Ryan Giggs claims winning the Champions League two years ago with Manchester United will mean nothing unless they do it again…

Ryan Giggs claims winning the Champions League two years ago with Manchester United will mean nothing unless they do it again.

Ahead of tonight's win-or-bust clash with Bayern Munich, Giggs is anxious United do not go down in the annals of Champions League historyas one-season wonders.

He desperately wants to lift the European Cup with United again to prove they are one of Europe's great sides.

"We've got to prove that the Champions League triumph was not a one-off," he said. It was a great achievement but in my eyes it doesn't mean anything unless we do it again."

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Giggs knows United will need to draw on the spirit of '99 if they are going to overturn Bayern's 1-0 lead from the quarter-final first leg at OldTrafford and triumph in the Olympic Stadium.

United must do without the suspended David Beckham while Bayern will be missing the banned duo of Bixente Lizarazu and Hasan Salihamidzic.

Both sides must reshuffle their line-ups but Bayern are boosted by the return of top scorer Giovane Elber from a knee injury.

Manchester United(probable): Barthez; G. Neville, Brown, Stam, Silvestre; Scholes, Butt, Keane, Giggs; Yorke, Cole.

Bayern Munich(probable): Kahn, Sagnol, Kuffour, Andersson, Tarnat, Linke; Scholl, Effenberg, Jeremies, Jancker, Elber. PA