The Bundesliga champions felt robbed and afterwards Lothar Matthaus claimed the luckiest team rather than the best one had won.

Bayern managing director Karl Hopfner claimed they were relishing the chance to play United again.

"Manchester United are the team most of the players wanted to face," he said. "Naturally we have not forgotten the final of two years ago.

"Perhaps we will now have a little more luck in these two games unlike the last time.

"They are the strongest team we could have met and we have a very good and friendly relationship with the Englishmen.

"I'm sure the fans can look forward to two fantastic games of football."

United manager Sir Alex Ferguson tried to play down talk of settling old scores.

"I don't think revenge comes into it in players' minds," he said.

"I wouldn't have thought the experienced players they have got would be thinking that way and I know we don't think that way.

"There's too much importance in games of football these days to think about revenge."

Ferguson claims he was not bothered about who United drew and he is happy with Bayern because their players are well known.

"The fact that we finished in second place in our group meant we knew it was going to be difficult anyway," he said.

"It didn't matter whether it would have been Deportivo, Real Madrid or Bayern Munich, who we've got, we knew it was going to be difficult. "

Bayern coach Ottmar Hitzfeld, who has become a great friend of Ferguson's and managed the rest of the world team at his testimonial in 1999, feels they should be two great games.

"It's a super draw," he said. "There's an enormous incentive for us to do better and it will be a football feast for all."