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Deadly Martial has the best minutes-per-goal ratio in Premier League

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Man Utd forward Martial has been in fine goalscoring form of late and found the net again in Saturday's 5-1 win over Cardiff.

Manchester United forward Anthony Martial is the Premier League's most ruthless striker, according to statistics.

Of the top-flight players to have netted six or more goals over the first four-and-a-half months of the season, Martial's minutes-per-goal ratio is the best.

Martial, the league's joint-fifth top scorer with eight goals to his name, has managed a goal every 111 minutes in the top flight.

Only Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, the league's top scorer, comes close to matching that ratio.

The Gabon international has netted at a rate of one goal every 116 minutes so far this season.

United's interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer singled out six players for praise after Saturday's 5-1 win over Cardiff on Saturday and Martial - the scorer of the visitors' third goal - was one of them.

"I'm pleased with all of them, every single one of them," Solskjaer said. "But of course it's a threat [to have such players]. When you've got Martial and Jesse Lingard down either side, Rashford up top with Paul [Pogba] supporting them, it's exhilarating to watch and as long as we keep that standard up we'll keep up picking points.

"So when we get to work a little bit with each other and understand that we can trust each other to do a job, then we can have a little bit more distance and we might even improve.

"Rash, he's got a great strike in him, that swirl is difficult for the keeper now we can settle down and play. Because that was key today, the first 15, 20 minutes. We know the energy of the crowd here, I know that myself, we knew they were going to come long, first balls and second balls.

"And I thought Victor and Phil at the back won so many headers that ended up down into midfield instead of a flick on and that was great to see."

Premier League top scorers by minutes-per-goal ratio

Martial, 8 goals - 111 mins per goal

Aubameyang, 12 goals - 116 mins per goal

Aguero, 8 goals - 126 mins per goal

Sterling, 9 goals - 134 mins per goal

Salah, 11 goals - 135 mins per goal

Ings, 7 goals - 137 mins per goal

Kane, 11 goals - 140 mins per goal

Murray, 8 goals - 142 mins per goal

Pedro, 6 goals - 150 mins per goal

Hazard, 8 goals - 164 mins per goal

Sane, 6 goals - 164 mins per goal

Richarlison, 8 goals - 171 mins per goal

Vardy, 6 goals - 161 mins per goal

Wilson, 8 goals - 181 mins per goal

Lacazette, 6 goals - 189 mins per goal

Mane, 7 goals - 193 mins per goal

Lukaku, 6 goals - 197 mins per goal

Sigurdsson, 7 goals - 215 mins per goal

Mitrovic, 7 goals - 224 mins per goal

Anderson, 6 goals - 251 mins per goal