If that doesn’t get him the job on a permanent basis, it’s hard to think what will – the Champions League itself?
Well that doesn’t look so remote now for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United side after absolute scenes in Paris, with the Red Devils becoming the first side in the history of the competition to overturn a home-leg 2-0 deficit, the first team in 107 attempts.
A brace from Romelu Lukaku and a last minute penalty from Marcus Rashford sent Paris Saint-Germain crashing out and Manchester United crashing through to the Quarter-Finals, stunning the crowd at the Parc des Princes, the watching world, and sending odds tumbling.
Nearly 20 years on from making history by sealing the unprecedented, and still as yet unsurpassed Treble, Solskjaer’s side are once again history makers.
Since his appointment – on an interim basis – in mid-December, Solskjaer’s side have swept away almost all competition that come into their path.
The Norwegian Baby-Faced Assassin has had his side maraud in the Premier League, and has now asserted his continental credentials at the first time of asking. It was almost thought to be impossible for United to overcome that 2-0 wounding suffered at the hands of PSG at Old Trafford three years ago.
The final 3-3 aggregate score has made a mockery of the ‘impossible’. Right now it seems nothing is for Manchester United.
Man Utd fans will be singing to high heaven the praises of away goals, VAR, and their beloved interim boss.
Since being at the helm of the most successful club in England, Solskjaer achieved the best start of any Man Utd gaffer – even better than Sir Matt Busby – after winning his first six matches.
More impressively, he has the best ever start as a Premier League manager. Ahead of travelling to Arsenal at the weekend, Solskjaer has no domestic defeats on his copybook, the only blips being stalemates with Burnley and Liverpool. That means he has a humongous haul of 32 points from 12 games. Before he took over, Man Utd had 26 from 17 fixtures…
Furthermore, after their extravagances over Les Parisiens, Manchester United have now won nine consecutive away games in all competitions; six in the EPL, two in the FA Cup, and now – the absolute icing on the cake – in the Champions League.
The first time this has ever been achieved in their history.
He’s not at the wheel, he’s reinvented it.