Ibrahimović is back! Can he mangle annals with United?
‘Zlatan’ is now a noun in a Swedish compendium (meaning: to give an superb arrangement of skill) and a BlÃ¥gult’s all-time tip scorer (62 general goals) left his final bar Paris Saint-Germain as their all-time heading marksman. In his initial deteriorate during United, Zlatan Ibrahimović afterwards became only a third actor to measure for 7 clubs in UEFA competition. What are his chances of environment some-more annals during Old Trafford?
Zlatan Ibrahimović’s European stats
UEFA Champions League appearances: 119 (11th in altogether standings, turn with Lionel Messi)
UEFA Champions League goals: 48 (7th in altogether standings, turn with Andriy Shevchenko)
UEFA bar foe appearances: 139 (21st in altogether standings, turn with Andrea Pirlo)
UEFA bar foe goals: 56 (10th in altogether standings, turn with Eusébio)
Best goals sum for singular European season: 10 (Paris Saint-Germain, 2013/14)
Having incited 36 in October, Ibrahimović looks a prolonged shot to take initial place in a all-time appearances and goals charts – not slightest given Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are both younger than him and resolutely above him in a rankings. However, another successful debate with United could still go a prolonged approach to lifting him towards a tip slopes of football’s Mount Olympus.
Should he play 7 some-more UEFA Champions League games in assisting United make it to a UEFA Champions League final, he go into undisguised sixth place in a competition’s coming rankings, overtaking a likes of Andrés Iniesta, oOberto Carlos and former Old Trafford favourite Paul Scholes.
Two some-more UEFA Champions League goasl, meanwhile, would make him usually a seventh actor to measure 50 in UEFA’s tip bar competition, after Ronaldo, Messi, Raúl González, Ruud outpost Nistelrooy, Karim Benzema and Thierry Henry.
Moreover, he would extend his possess record of carrying scored for a many teams in Europe’s tip bar foe (currently Ajax, Juventus, Internazionale Milano, Barcelona, AC Milan and Paris) to seven.
Three some-more and Ibrahimović would pass another Old Trafford alumnus, Henrik Larsson, to turn a top-scoring Swede in UEFA bar competitions: a former Celtic and Barcelona male strike 59 in total.
Another six, meanwhile, would move him turn with Van Nistelrooy’s 62-goal symbol in all competitions, nonetheless he might cite not to take on a Dutchman’s indeterminate eminence of being a tip scorer in European football never to have carried a vital UEFA bar trophy. The usually continental bar foe final win Ibrahimović has featured in – so far – is a 2009 UEFA Super Cup.
Most European appearances for United: Ryan Giggs 157
Most European goals for United: Ruud outpost Nistelrooy 38
With 11 European appearances and 5 goals for a Reds so far, Ibrahimović’s chances of creation it to a tip of these dual United trees demeanour slender. Giggs played until he was 40 and never altered club; for Zlatan to squeeze his European bar appearances record, he would many expected need to lift on personification until he was in his 50s.
Having nonetheless to measure some-more than 10 in a singular UEFA bar foe campaign, Ibrahimović would expected need during slightest 4 some-more seasons to outscore Van Nistelrooy in a United shirt. However, should he be adult for that challenge, he could dip a integrate some-more annals on a approach …
Oldest UEFA bar foe scorers
UEFA Champions League final: Paolo Maldini (36 years 333 days) Milan v Liverpool (25/05/2005)
UEFA Champions League, organisation theatre to final: Francesco Totti (38 years 59 days)
CSKA Moskva v Roma (25/11/2014)
European Cup: Manfred Burgsmüller (38 years 293 days)
Werder Bremen v Dynamo Berlin (11/10/1988)
… and nonetheless he would not be means to outstrip Maldini as a final’s oldest scorer in 2018 (he will be 36 years and 235 days aged on a day of a Kyiv decider), he would be absolutely comparison than Totti (37 years and 241 days) if he found a aim in a 1 Jun 2019 final in Madrid.
Totti’s record as a oldest UEFA Champions League scorer could be Ibrahimović’s if he scores after 2 Dec 2019 – and he would pass Burgsmüller’s European Cup miracle too if he can find a aim after 23 Jul 2020.
Zlatan Ibrahimović’s domestic stats
Best goals sum for a singular domestic season: 38 (Paris Saint-Germain, 2015/16)
Career joining appearances/goals: 512/319
League idea strike rate: 0.62 goals per game
Target No1 for Ibrahimović is alighting United’s initial English pretension given they collected their 20th underneath Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013. Ibrahimović has his possess reasons – it would make him a initial actor to win domestic tip groups in 5 opposite countries, following successes in a Netherlands, Italy, Spain and France.
In addition, should he repeat his 38-goal Ligue 1 transport with Paris from 2015/16, he would turn United’s all-time tip scorer in a singular joining campaign; Dennis Viollet’s 32 in 1959/60 stays a record, with Ronaldo carrying come closest to relating it with 31 in 2007/08. However, carrying missed a start of a season, he would have to strike a belligerent using to do so.
His idea opposite Manchester City on 10 Sep 2016, meanwhile, meant he went one step serve than Ronaldinho in terms of bagging goals in Europe’s distinguished bar derbies. He and a Brazilian are a usually players to have scored in a Derby della Madonnina in Milan, El Clásico in Spain and Le Classique in France – those 3 and a Manchester derby is a singular set.
A reduction apparent record might already have depressed into his lap. United’s 2-1 feat opposite Leicester in a FA Community Shield on 7 Aug 2016 was Ibrahimović’s tenth domestic ‘Super Cup’ success: Ajax 2002, Inter 2006, 2008, Barcelona 2009, 2010, Milan 2011, Paris 2013, 2014, 2015, and United 2016. Can anyone surpass his feat of carrying won Super Cups in 5 opposite countries?
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