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26th Sep 2015

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

On the up

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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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One of those tests shouldn’t be Sunderland at Old Trafford this afternoon.

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 his signing, Martial, who has 18 points from two league games, the striker has been signed up by more than 943,000 users.

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

Wise signing? Time will tell.

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