“One thing is certain. Wayne Rooney got his Manchester United career off to a dream start with a brilliant hat-trick against Fenerbahce. View the starting lineups and subs for the Man Utd vs Fenerbahce match on 28.09.2004, plus access full match preview and predictions. Goals: Giggs 7, Rooney 17, 28, 54, van Nistelrooy 78, It was the first hat-trick of Rooney's senior career and capped a simply breathtaking display of attacking football from the teenage prodigy. Equally surprising was Gary Neville's return to action only three weeks after suffering a hairline fracture of his kneecap in England's World Cup qualifier in Poland. On-loan Barcelona goalkeeper Rüştü stood in Rooney’s way, but the goal might as well have been empty, such was the certainty with which the England forward struck the ball. READ: Where are they now? United were ahead after only seven minutes, when Giggs glanced in a header from Kleberson's cross, and their opponents could not extend Roy Carroll throughout the opening 45 minutes. Roy Keane was rested, John O'Shea was on the bench, while Paul Scholes was out injured so in came Kleberson and Eric Djemba-Djemba.

Fenerbahce are now unbeaten in eight European home games. There’s a long tradition of debate around temporarily giving penalty duties to a player on a hat-trick, but the same rarely applies to free-kicks. It must have been tempting to rush Rooney back from his broken metatarsal, especially when United needed last-gasp goals to rescue league points against Blackburn and Bolton.

He clearly didn’t want to give us any time to keep the former as an option.

But a teenage debutant scoring a hat-trick on his debut under the lights?

United ended up adding two late goals for a 6-2 victory, but it wasn’t a magical solution to all of their woes in front of goal.

The Rooney we saw in Portugal was an unstoppable force, but it’s reasonable to think a broken foot might go some way towards stopping him in his tracks, or at least adding an element of hesitation to his play for the first game back. Iconic debuts: Wayne Rooney’s hat-trick against Fenerbahçe, 2004.

Even Eriksson, disregarding his usual decorum, jumped out of his seat at that. It was the only real blip on a memorable first appearance for Rooney in a United shirt and in the Champions League. While there was a definite heavyweight feel to United's attack and defence, the home side's midfield appeared vulnerable. Episode guide, trailer, review, preview, cast list and where to stream it on demand, on catch up and download. Iconic debuts: Ruud van Nistelrooy’s double for Man Utd against Fulham

Back then, we didn’t know if Rooney was a mere breakout star or someone who would still be at the top of the game a decade later. More Manchester United. Tue 28 Sep 2004 20.37 EDT First published on Tue 28 Sep 2004 ... his first appearance for Manchester United will go down in the club's ... Fenerbahce. Can you name Man Utd’s top 30 goalscorers in Premier League history? October 21, 2017. Those deficiencies were evident in the second half when Ferguson's players allowed carelessness to infiltrate their performance, but by then Rooney had ensured their first victory in Group D. The England striker left the pitch to a standing ovation with the match ball as his souvenir for a remarkable night's work, a performance which incorporated vision, finesse and the embryonic signs of a partnership with Ruud van Nistelrooy that could inspire feelings of trepidation in the world's most accomplished defender. 8:04. The United defence failed to clear their lines, and while Carroll produced an excellent point-blank save, he could do nothing about Tuncay's shot from the edge of the area. After bursting onto the international tournament scene, he knew the injury sustained in England’s European Championships exit against Portugal would keep him out for some time. First when Van Nistelrooy's through-ball bisected the visiting defence and Rooney's instinctive left-foot shot soared into the net. Every team will have its moments where momentum and narrative shift. There will be much more expected and required of him now than there would have been then.”. Preview and stats followed by live commentary, video highlights and match report. Every time he took possession he shimmered with menace. There was no chance of anyone getting in his way, just as there was no chance of anyone getting in the way once he did step up. Instead, though, he was held back until the home European opener against Turkish champions Fenerbahce.

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