DEBUT GOAL FOR ZIRKZEE!  | Man Utd 1-0 Fulham | Premier League - video Dailymotion

DEBUT GOAL FOR ZIRKZEE!  | Man Utd 1-0 Fulham | Premier League

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00:00There was a pleasing symmetry for Manchester United and Joshua Xherxe scoring a late winner

00:04on his Premier League debut against Fulham at Old Trafford.

00:08Twenty-three years earlier, another Dutch forward did the same thing for United against

00:12the same opponents.

00:14Xherxe may not get close to Ruud van Nistelrooy's 150 goals in five seasons for the club but

00:19given his fellow countryman has returned to United as manager Eric Ten Hag's coaching

00:24assistant, there is shared delight in his smartly taken 87th-minute effort.

00:29It doesn't matter if he is Dutch or English or Russian or South American, said Ten Hag.

00:34It is Man United.

00:36He is a Man United player and it is very good for a striker to come in and score his first

00:40goal.

00:41Ten Hag referenced the struggles of Rasmus Hodgeland, his big-money striking purchase

00:45last season, who was 15 games into his Premier League career before he finally found the

00:50net, against Aston Villa on Boxing Day.

00:53Remember last season when Rasmus scored a first goal, against Brighton in his second

00:57game on September 16, and we wait on the halfway line for two minutes before VAR decided

01:02the ball was over the he-goal-line, before the cross?

01:06It was very frustrating.

01:08On such fine margins can major moments turn.

01:11Xherxe's goal sent the vast majority of a capacity crowd into raptures.

01:16The noise did justice to the build-up the £36.5m signing from Italian side Bologna

01:21had been given.

01:23I've been told, scoring at the Stretford end, it's one of the best feelings at Man United,"

01:28he said.

01:29I'm so thankful and blessed I could experience it in my first game.

01:33It's an amazing feeling.

01:36It's been amazing, it's been a dream actually.

01:39From Everton trial to Serie A star, the rise of new Man United hero Xherxe.