🇮🇹 Serie A spotlight: Irresistible Ibra can lead Milan to glory 🦁 | OneFootball

Age can’t stop him. COVID-19 couldn’t stop him. And even Pep Guardiola couldn’t tame him.

What a career it has been for Zlatan Ibrahimović and despite being 39, it looks like there’s plenty more mileage still in the tank.

Last week, Roma legend Francesco Totti (a man who knows a thing or two about Benjamin Button-esque ageing) made an interesting comment about the Swedish striker.

People smirked at the time. But after his performance at the Stadio San Paolo against Napoli on Sunday, they aren’t doing so anymore.

Ibrahimović turned in yet another sensational performance, scoring two decisive goals to see off Napoli and fire Milan back to the top of Serie A.

His 10 goals in the first eight games of the season are bettered only once in club history – by Marco van Basten’s 12-goal haul in 1992/93.

You want more Zlatan stats? Of course you do. Who doesn’t love the lion after all.

Take his age out of it for a moment.

If you read only those cold, hard statistics you’d be very impressed. So why should we let his advanced years cloud on any judgement?

Your eyes are telling you that this is a man who shows no signs of looking like a 39-year-old and it is only to the benefit of a revitalised Rossoneri outfit.

If the public smirked at Totti for his comments, they outright sneered at Zlatan when he claimed that Milan would have won the league last season if they had him for the whole year.

But all of the evidence so far suggests he really had a point. With him leading the charge, they look every inch a title contender.

The only downside to the victory on Sunday was the hamstring injury he sustained, which is set for further tests in the coming days.

This team need him desperately. They can only hope it isn’t too serious.

And elsewhere …

😱 Goal of the Weekend

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

🥇 Player of the Weekend

Mkhitaryan and others run him close but after all we said above, could it really be anyone else?