Key Battle: Ibrahimovic v Van Dijk

Can Zlatan Ibrahimovic score on his home debut? He’ll have to get past Virgil van Dijk first. We check the stats and assess the battle…

Having already scored on his Man Utd and Premier League debuts, Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be looking to complete an early season hat-trick by scoring on his official home debut against Southampton on Friday night.

The summer arrival from PSG would become the 20th player to score on his Old Trafford debut for Man Utd in the PL era, and he’ll be hopeful his legacy is more closely associated to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Dwight Yorke and Ruud van Nistelrooy than to Jordi Cruyff, Federico Macheda and Nick Powell, all of whom are among the previous 19 players to have achieved the feat.

In the major five European leagues last season, only Barcelona’s Luis Suarez hit the net more often than Ibrahimovic, who managed to outscore the other famous names in the list below in terms of minutes-per-goal, despite being three years older than any of those direct …

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