It's the latest milestone for the 20-year-old, who made great strides at club level during the 2023/24 season.

Garnacho made 50 appearances in all competitions last season, and started every game from November onwards. Famously, he set United on the road to FA Cup glory at Wembley in May, scoring the opener as we defeated Manchester City 2-1.

To mark the release of our new adidas home kit for 2024/25, this week we're focusing on United players that 'Own The Stage'.

So, without further ado, here are five occasions when Garna delivered when it mattered most during his fledgling career...

ONE: UNITED 3 NOTTINGHAM FOREST 1
(FA Youth Cup final, 11 May 2022)

A remarkable crowd of 67,492 attended the 2022 FA Youth Cup final at Old Trafford, as the club went in search of a record-extending 11th triumph. Only one of the young Reds' starting XI had the experience of a first-team appearance, let alone a near-capacity crowd at the Theatre of Dreams. That, of course, was Garnacho, who had made his debut just weeks earlier, as a late substitute in a 1-1 draw against Chelsea.

The pressure was on Garnacho, as the team's most hyped player, but the boy rose royally to the challenge, in a pressure situation that gave early notice of not just his talent, but his ticker. Garnacho's desperation to do well arguably counted against him during the first half, but United nevertheless took a 1-0 lead through Rhys Bennett's header. However, in the second period, following Joshua Powell's late first-half equaliser for the visitors, the intensity ramped up. Enter Garnacho.

First he won a penalty, and then calmly slotted the ball home to restore the Reds' lead. Then, in the last few seconds of injury time, he made the game safe with some tricky work inside the box and a deflected finish, after a blazing run. The love affair between Garnacho and his M16 public was past the first-date stage.

TWO: FULHAM 1 UNITED 2
(Premier League, 13 November 2022)

Garnacho's maiden first-team goal came in a 1-0 away win in the Basque Country, when United beat Real Sociedad in the Europa League. But it was Alejandro's first Premier League goal, just two weeks later, that really revealed the breadth of his performative qualities.

United seemed to be ambling towards a very uninspiring draw at Craven Cottage, in the final game before the mid-season Qatar World Cup, until Garnacho replaced Anthony Martial in the 72nd minute.

As the game crept into its final stages, it was Garnacho, with his willingness to run at defenders and make something happen, who gave United hope of something more satisfying. Just before the final whistle, with more than 92 minutes on the clock, it finally arrived, when Garnacho played a simple one-two with Christian Eriksen and accelerated, as if on roller skates, on to the Dane's return to slot home one of those classic late United winners.

Cue delirium in our away end behind the goal, and the latest sign that here was a player that would embrace the fraught pressure - and glorious rewards - that come with pulling on our great shirt.

THREE: UNITED 3 ASTON VILLA 2
(Premier League, 26 December 2023)

I could easily have included another game against Aston Villa here: a riotously entertaining 4-2 win in the Carabao Cup that came just days before the Fulham match described above. But while Garnacho delivered a blistering cameo from the bench in that game, swinging the tie completely in United's favour, in this Boxing Day classic from 2023 he started from the beginning and was comfortably our best player throughout.

When two-nil down at half-time, with Garnacho on the opposite flank (right) to normal, the forecast seemed bleak. But what a second half followed: first, he put the ball in the net when sent clear by Marcus Rashford, only for VAR to disallow the goal due to a tight offside. But then he scored twice, levelling the game and setting up the platform for Rasmus Hojlund's winner – the Dane's first Premier League goal.

Throughout, Garnacho was simply a menace, and showed no sign of being inhibited by the uneasiness drifting across Old Trafford while the Midlanders led by two.

FOUR: UNITED 3 WEST HAM 0
(Premier League, 4 February 2024)

Garnacho scored twice in this comfortable win against the Hammers but, let's be honest, we're picking this game because of the photo. You know the one: Garna, flanked by Hojlund and Mainoo, propped up on the advertising hoardings in front of thousands of joyous Reds. It became one of the images of the 2023/24 season – a symbol of the hope offered by youth during a challenging campaign.

Strictly speaking, this pick is about the celebration as much as the performance. But if we're talking about 'owning the stage', then scoring twice and turning Old Trafford into your personal playground is pretty much the dictionary definition.

FIVE: MANCHESTER CITY 1 UNITED 2
(FA Cup final, 25 May 2024)

Where else to finish but Wembley? A day that will, for the foreseeable at least, be remembered as possibly United's greatest day since the Sir Alex Ferguson era?

The buzz is still coursing through many of us, more than a month on from 25 May, and Garnacho was integral to the brave and brilliant performance delivered by Erik ten Hag's men under the most severe pressure.

His willingness to repeatedly run in behind City's defence was the key to our joy in the first half and, while the opening goal relied on a healthy dollop of luck – courtesy of City goalkeeper Stefan Ortega and defensive colleague Josko Gvardiol – Garnacho's appetite earned that luck. And there was nothing fortuitous at all about United's second, finished by Garna's Academy pal Mainoo, after sensational work by Rashford, Fernandes and Garnacho. Just magnificent.