When Paul Ince suggested that Odion Ighalo wouldn't have scored his brilliant goal for Manchester United at LASK had there been fans in the stadium, his comments were met with confusion.
Ighalo had opened the scoring in United's big Europa League win as he juggled a ball to control around 25 yards out before taking a touch and unleashing a fine left-footed strike into the top corner off the crossbar.
It was a brilliant strike for the loan signing as he continued his scoring run with his fourth goal in eight appearances for United.
However, because the game was being played behind closed doors, former United midfielder Ince said he thought Ighalo only tried the skill before the goal because there were no fans watching.
“Here he juggles it three times and fires it into the top corner,” Ince said at half-time on BT Sport.
“It reminds me of one of those that you would do at training. If it was a full house, I don’t know if I am doing a disservice to him, I don’t know.
“It is a wonderful goal, let me tell you that. A wonderful strike. That is something you would try in training.”
The comments left plenty of United fans confused as to why Ince would look to take any credit away from a wonderful goal, and one pundit who took to Twitter to offer a different view was Gary Lineker, who wrote: "Just saw Ighalo’s goal. Sensational. Deserved a crowd."
