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Ibrahimovic found the back of the net against Leicester City on Sunday.

Ibrahimovic the first Man United player to reach 20 goals in a season since Fergie's retirement

The Swede insists he’s still short of the target he set himself.

ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC SAYS he still has some way to go to reach his goals target for the season despite netting his 20th of the campaign in Manchester United’s 3-0 win at champions Leicester City yesterday.

The 35-year-old became the first United player to hit the 20-goal mark since Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013 (Robin van Persie scored 30 that season), while he simultaneously became the oldest player in history to score 15 in the Premier League.

But the Swede insisted afterwards that he has a figure in mind for his debut campaign in the Premier League, and 20 is not enough for him even if he doesn’t expect to come close to the 50 he scored in his final season at Paris Saint-Germain.

“I have a target in my head but I will not say it. We are not there yet!” he told reporters. “This is something I have been doing every year, and this is nothing new for me… I keep producing.

I have 20 and seven assists, so the statistics so far are the same region as other years except for last year because that was a crazy year.

“I still produce and do my best and I get a lot of help from my team-mates. I know there were many people saying I would not even score 20, but that is not what I focus on.

“For me the main objective is to help my team win, do the best and afterwards we will see what happens. As for the 20, we have some games left so hopefully it will become more.”

With his goal at the King Power Stadium, Ibrahimovic has now netted at least 20 goals in ten consecutive seasons, and he also helped United to close the gap between themselves and fourth-placed Arsenal to just two points.

And the striker believes United have the quality to secure a top-four finish, as exemplified in their stroll against the champions.

“It was a good performance but if we’d won the last couple of games the situation would be totally different. But we’re working hard and we want to reach the top four because to be champions would be hard, but this is the aim.

“It was a big gap a couple of months ago but the gap is smaller now and I think we are our own men because if we had won our games, and got the points we should have got, the situation would be totally different. But okay, now we look at the other teams and hopefully they’ll lose points.”

United face Watford on Saturday in their next fixture of a busy season, and they know that a victory could take them into the top five spots for the first time since September.

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    Mute Ciaran Rice
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    Feb 6th 2017, 9:11 AM

    And to think of all the Morons on here who questioned his ability cos he only scored goals in….. eh….France, Spain, Italy, holland. Now he’s scored against the dross that England has to offer they surely must be eating their words.

    Imagine what he would have done in the EPL in his prime.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 9:27 AM

    He’s a beast

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    Mute Mick Power
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    Feb 6th 2017, 10:14 AM

    I wanted him to fail for obvious reasons but has any other player proved to be a great player in all the top leagues, can’t think of any.

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    Mute Sloop John G
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    Feb 6th 2017, 11:21 AM

    Yeah, have to give him credit. He’s already hit 20 goals with, at the very least, 18 games still to go.

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    Mute Marcus Bale
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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:27 PM

    A beast will you get a grip ffs

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    Mute Billy Larkin
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    Feb 6th 2017, 10:00 PM

    Class act.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 10:26 AM

    Lots of ignorant idiots saying we wouldn’t make double figures for the season. Read the stats and weep

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    Mute bob wilbury
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    Feb 6th 2017, 11:53 AM

    Hopefully he stays fit cos if he dont we’re gone.hes going the right way to becoming a club legend

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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:01 PM

    I’ve been saying for years how underrated he actually is when you compare him to Messi and Ronaldo. He’s consistently been the top striker in the world and top 5 or 6 in the world for about 15 years. I’m a Liverpool fan so wanted him to fail obviously but he’s such an incredible player and should go down as one of the greatest ever

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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:28 PM

    Hahaahahaah are you disturbed

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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:43 PM

    How many has coutinho ?

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    Mute Marcus Bale
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    Feb 6th 2017, 2:54 PM

    Who the midfielder who every top club in Europe would take tomorrow . More then any midfielder the Mancs have that’s for sure .

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    Mute Mick Power
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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:20 PM

    Give it a rest Johnny what’s this got to do with him.

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    Mute Johnny Bravo
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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:23 PM

    Who who ?? What are you a fking owl ?

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:27 PM

    Mata has the same amount of prem goals as coutinho and more overall.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:35 PM

    They both have 5 league goals, as does Ozil and Eriksen. One more than Pog and Gareth McAuley.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:39 PM

    Just debunking another claim from marcus bale. He’s the sean spicer of the 42!

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:42 PM

    Jenny BlaBlavo: i said who once and that joke i heard in school in 1972 i think which proves what most already know . Your a young slightly stupid little child . I’ll finish off like you do with a big Blahaahaahahahahahahahah

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:44 PM

    @Johnny Bravo: What does Coutinho have to do with this story? Ibra is an Striker. Couthinho is a midfielder. Were you born this way?

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    Mute Marcus Bale
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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:46 PM

    Debunking what you amadán. Brining politics into football . That’s the foreign in you i suppose . Sticking the beak in

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:48 PM

    Don’t start him off . You will get thinking he will then get a big nose bleed and just start Blahaahaahahahahahahahah out of him . Remember he is only 13 or 14 years of age and possibly a slight bit stupid

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:49 PM

    He doesn’t foreign stop

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    Feb 6th 2017, 6:13 PM

    Debunking what you said! I’m comparing you to another well known fabricator of alternative truths. I’m Irish by the by not that nationality has anything to with me proving you wrong. Don’t get too upset about being called on it.

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    Feb 6th 2017, 6:21 PM

    It’s getting old isn’t it!

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    Feb 6th 2017, 7:03 PM

    @bognar Sussex : do you not make any of your own points or do you just go round checking other people’s for specific times dates etc… seriously are you some sort of human spell check or just a weirdo . Politics is boring but it’s desperate to mix with football and looking to then converse with . Seriously foreign

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    Feb 6th 2017, 10:14 AM

    He’s finished!!

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    Feb 6th 2017, 10:22 AM

    Sure has 20 and counting

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    Feb 6th 2017, 1:08 PM

    I’m guessing my sarcasm was missed!

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    Feb 6th 2017, 12:47 PM

    Lukaku has 16 in the league already

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    Feb 6th 2017, 3:20 PM

    16 goals for Everton at this stage of season is brilliant . He is on fire . Some ability . Still only young .

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    Feb 6th 2017, 8:20 PM

    Very true Marcus. They are a good side under koeman

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