Antony and the 20 other players to score on their Man Utd Premier League debut

Mark Hughes was the first to achieve the feat – although he had been playing top-flight football for us since 1980. He scored in our 2-1 defeat to Sheffield United at the start of the inaugural Premier League season, 1992/93.

Paul Scholes followed up his debut double in the League Cup tie against Port Vale during the 1994/95 season by notching against Ipswich Town but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in 1996/97 was the only other Red to net on his Premier League bow during the 1990s. Ruud van Nistelrooy (two v Fulham in 2001) is the next on the list.

Naturally, strikers dominate the roll call – Louis Saha, Giuseppe Rossi, Danny Welbeck and, famously, Federico Macheda – scored on their PL debuts during the 2000s, as did defender Gabriel Heinze, in a 2-2 draw at Bolton in 2004, and winger Chris Eagles: who could forget his strike in our important 4-2 comeback victory at Everton in April 2007?