It is 11 years ago this month that Federico Macheda scored a famous goal to cap a brilliant Manchester United fight-back. A goal down with ten minutes remaining, up stepped a certain Cristiano Ronaldo and the Italian Macheda; the latter delivering a stunning curling effort into the Aston Villa net to win the game.
Macheda’s defining moment in a United shirt proved to be a false dawn, failing to live up to the expectation from that point on.
He goes down as one of the club’s famed one-hit wonders. Here are some others who burst onto the scene, only to fade away as quickly as they had arrived. Josh Harrop One match, one goal and one shot on target in his Manchester United career, Josh Harrop embodies the one-hit wonder.
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