The Manchester United captain hit a superb treble in his side's 4-0 win over Club Brugge in the Champions League qualifying round second leg and later expressed his delight Wayne Rooney expressed his delight at ending his 10-match goal drought after he netted a hat-trick in Manchester United's 4-0 win over Club Brugge on Wednesday.
The England captain had gone 878 minutes without finding the net for United prior to his 20th-minute opener in Wednesday's Champions League play-off second-leg tie.
Rooney went on to complete his treble in the second half, before Ander Herrera rounded off the scoring as United secured their place in Thursday's draw for the group stages with a 7-1 aggregate success, and the 29-year-old later insisted that he was never worried by his dry spell.
"I'm delighted to get the goals, and more importantly it was good to go through to the group stage," Rooney told BT Sport.
"If I didn't have a strong character, it [talk of the drought] would have affected me, but I know my quality and what I give to the team and if the goals don't go in I still do it for my team-mates.
"I wasn't worried. If it had gone on three, four, five games more then maybe but it's still early days.
"As a striker obviously you want to score but everyone goes back to last season and 'so many games you didn't score' and makes a big thing of it.
"But I've understood because of who I am it gets publicised a lot more but it's part of my job and I have to accept that.
"It was a big disappointment last year not to challenge in it [the Champions League] and coming here we didn't think it was going to be as comfortable as it was but it was vital we went through and over the two legs we deserved it.
"We'll enjoy the draw and it's nice to be back in the draw again."
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