Zlatan Ibrahimovic arrived at Manchester United making big promises about what a team with him in attack and Jose Mourinho on the bench might be able to achieve. One game in, he looks more than ready to fulfil his side of the bargain.
The Swedish striker backed up all of his talk by delivering the Community Shield-winning goal at Wembley to cap a great day for the Red Devils and their new manager.
"He's a winner, I'm a winner and we know both what we want. We want to win. Wherever we go, we win. And we will win."
With the Community Shield game against Leicester City finely poised at 1-1 and only seven minutes left on the clock, the giant Swede showed that he is more than just bluster. After Antonio Valencia found space to send in a dangerous cross, Ibrahimovic rose high to get just enough contact on his header as the ball evaded Kasper Schmeichel and dropped in off the far post.
United had already held the lead once but initially let it escape. Their opening goal was scored by the same man who scored the final goal of the Louis van Gaal era in the same net to win the FA Cup - but it had quite a different feel about it.
Jesse Lingard showed the sort of urgency which, for long periods of last season, was sadly lacking as he burst beyond four defenders and slotted past Schmeichel to give United the lead after half an hour. The winger's inclusion in the starting XI ahead of Henrikh Mkhitaryan had come as a surprise to some but his goal offered a great example of some of the attacking verve that should be far more apparent this term under Mourinho.
But Mourinho will say that the result is king and today it was Zlatan who crowned Manchester United as Community Shield winners. On top of the announcement of Paul Pogba's imminent medical at Carrington, it has been quite a day for the Portuguese's Old Trafford revolution.
