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26th Sep 2015

A staggering number of people have brought Anthony Martial into their Fantasy Football team

Patrick McCarry

Can he keep up the scoring start?

Anthony Martial has four goals in four Manchester United games [two starts] since his £36m transfer from Monaco.

The French teenager shows no signs of allowing the hefty price tag get to him but sterner tests are on the horizon.

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Sunderland’s visit to Old Trafford ought not to be one of those tests.

The Black Cats are rock bottom of the league and have conceded 13 goals in their opening six games.

Martial is set to start up front against Dick Advocaat’s side so it would be a shrewd move to get him into your Fantasy Football team.

Well, that is exactly what 854,226 of you Fantasy Premier League managers have done.

MARTIAL STATS

Since joining United, Martial, who has 18 points from two league games, has been signed up by more than 943,000 users.

Given that there are more than 3.4m participants in the competition, that means Martial is now in 27.6% of teams.

A wise decision? Time will tell.