Zlatan Ibrahimovic signed on a free from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer and has been a revelation in the Premier League.
The big Swede has 19 goals in all competitions in just 30 games including 14 in the league.
The Manchester United striker is just one goal behind Alexis Sanchez and Diego Costa in the race for the golden boot this season.
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Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored 19 goals in all competitions this season
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Steve Nicol believes the likes of Juan Mata and Henrikh Mkhitaryan aren't consistent enough
United are four points adrift of the Champions League places but could be even further away if not for Ibrahimovic who has accounted for 15 of their 41 points so far.
And Liverpool legend Nicol has challenged United's forwards to take on more of the scoring responsibility.
“Unfortunately, at the moment it seems like the only way Manchester United scores is goals like that [describing Rooney’s effort],” Nicol told ESPN FC.
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“They certainly possession-wise appear to dominate most weeks, most times they step on the field, but they can’t break anybody down.
“I mean if you look at the numbers and you at the names on the shots for United players going forward they’ve all got quality and class, but they don’t seem to be connecting with each other.
“Ibrahimovic seems to be the only one who’s consistently at his best everybody else kind of fluxes in and out of the game; you know Mata, Mkhitaryan, Martial and then Rashford comes on, but they just don’t seem to gel well going forward when they need to.”
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