Three minutes.
That’s all it took for Manchester United’s marquee summer signing Zlatan Ibrahimovic to find the back of the net in his debut for the club.
Okay, so it’s just a pre-season friendly against Galatasaray, but United fans will have been delighted to see the mercurial Swede’s pretty acrobatic finish in the opening stages. On replay it looks as though the striker didn’t quite catch the ball in the way he would have liked, but the bounce evaded the goalkeeper and Zlatan is off the mark for the Red Devils.
His manager didn’t look too unhappy either.
Talk about an instant impact! #ZlatanTime
Switch over now to watch live on #MUTVHD. https://t.co/C8QYQI3308
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) July 30, 2016
Reaction to the goal on social media was decidedly mixed. There are some fans that got pretty excited, perhaps understandable given the hype that comes with seemingly everything Zlatan Ibrahimovic does.
https://twitter.com/AyaDyani/status/759447911621128193
Zlatan scored 4 minutes into his debut for man united by a bicycle kick 😂 the God has arrived to the premier league
— Chase (@Chaseybuns) July 30, 2016
https://twitter.com/MUnitedHome/status/759444984722587648
https://twitter.com/ffsRooney/status/759444556505026560
Others thought it was, well, a bit rubbish.
signature zlatan looks like compete miss kick tho
— Pete Dutton (@dutton_pete) July 30, 2016
