The predatory effort against Chelsea, on the opening day of the season, was just the sort of goal his manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, would have been proud of and there is an understanding from the 23-year-old he should be able to contribute more of these strikes as a no.9, after reverting to the shirt number and being deployed in a central role.

“We all prefer beautiful goals but, at the end of the day, a goal is still a goal,” he told the official club magazine. “So, if I could score 30 goals like I scored in the game against Chelsea, I would take that right now!

”I guess I have tended to score quite nice goals and so, if I managed to score more of this kind of goal, in addition to the more spectacular ones, then I'd end up with a much higher goals total come the end of the season.