Zlatan Ibrahimovic's top five debuts

Ajax v Lyon (17/9/2002)

Ivan Cordoba of Inter Milan and Zlatan Ibrahimovic of Ajax

Although Ajax were the club where Ibra first started to make his name on a European scale, it took him a while to get going in Amsterdam. Co Adriaanse, who was his coach there when he arrived from Molde, was reticent to use the mercurial Swede, whose fortunes started to change in the autumn of 2001 when Ronald Koeman took over the running of the first team.

Barely 12 months later and Zlatan was lining up in the Champions League for the first time, against French champions Lyon.

Ten minutes into the match, he showed his potential. Having linked with Maxwell, he gathered the ball in an improbable position on the corner of the box before stepping inside and sending a searing drive into the OL goal off the post. Shortly afterwards, he had tapped home what proved to be the winner in a 2-1 success.

It would be two years later that he finally moved to Juventus, having scored many memorable goals for Ajax, including an outrageous solo striker against NAC on August 22 – just nine days before he completed his move.

However, Ibrahimovic would never enjoy success in the Champions League and was never truly able to shake off his tag as a flop in the knockout stages of the competition, in which he had an infamously poor scoring record.