Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney admits he wants to get back into the scoring groove.

Rooney has not scored since the first minute of that fateful two-legged tie with Bayern Munich, his 34th - and last - goal of his most prolific campaign at club level.

In international combat, you have to go back much further, to his effort in England's five-goal thumping of Croatia at Wembley last September, the only time he has scored for his country in the past calendar year.

Rooney gives the impression of someone who is not too stressed out by the situation, although the sense remains of a player who really needs to find the target if he is truly to break free of tension and anxiety.

"Of course I want to score," he said.

"I don't mind not scoring if we win but I know for us to win, it will be more or less down to me to score the goals, whether it is now or later in the competition."