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08th Dec 2016

Manchester United fans are gushing over Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s cracking first goal for the club

He's off the mark at last

Rob Burnett

Whisper it, but Henrikh Mkhitaryan is finally starting to prove why Manchester United spent £30m to bring him to the Premier League this summer.

The Armenian joined for big money from Borussia Dortmund, but then did his best invisible man impression for the best part of four months as Jose Mourinho mysteriously refused to play him.

But in the last few weeks he’s started nudging his way into the side and away at Ukrainian side Zorya in the Europa League he finally opened United goalscoring account with this great effort:

https://twitter.com/AllUnitedGoals/status/806939676280057856

And the United fans were loving it:

https://twitter.com/GOATIAL/status/806940954544345092

https://twitter.com/ForzaMundial/status/806943490781261824

https://twitter.com/armaan_4/status/806938522707959810

‘Adrian’ might be getting a little carried away though:

Mind you, up until that point the game was hardly a classic…

https://twitter.com/FootyHumour/status/806939441189318657

Helped by his goal and Moussa Sow’s overhead strike for Fenerbahce agains Feyenoord in the other Group A tie, Manchester United look to be going safely through to the next round.

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