There is, of course, a snag for the side who are presently fourth.
Normally, United would approach a meeting with Spain's third best team - Atletico Madrid are presently second behind runaway leaders Barcelona - with a substantial degree of confidence.
Bayern, presently fourth in the Bundesliga, have mislaid some of their shrewdness and no one understands, for instance, how the forward, Luca Toni, 32, can have been granted terms that will let him continue to collect £173,000 a week until 2010.
That 6-0 win in 1957 was at the expense of Irish part-timers Shamrock Rovers, not the team presently second in the Bundesliga/ Remarkably, Leverkusen could still join United in the knockout stages providing Shakhtar Donetsk do not leave Old Trafford with a victory that would deprive Moyes' side of top spot in Group A when the sides meet in a fortnight.
Chicago and Evanston, presently the second and third most expensive cities to buy cigarettes at $3.66 and $3.48 respectively, will likely earn the top spots if an extra $1 is tacked on top of Cook County's $2-a-pack 2-a-pack 2-a-pack tax
They presently sit third bottom in the Scottish Premiership, two points ahead of St Mirren and Ross County.
Boardroom problems have continued at Rangers, who presently lie third in the Scottish Championship, with the prospect of missing out on playing in the top flight next season.
Norfolk won gold in Athens and Beijing, is presently ranked third in the world and will be the flag bearer for ParalympicsGB at the opening ceremony.
The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has completed its baseline instrumentation for the start of the presently ongoing third physics run.
It is the first time Caley Thistle have reached the Scottish Cup final, but they also have the chance of qualifying for the Europa League via the Scottish Premiership as they presently lie third.
