Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy has more goals,more shots on target and has created more chances than any other Premier League striker this season. So why is everyone still talking approximately Diego Costa and Sergio Agüero?Trawl through the Premier League’s main scorers – or, to be more specific, or a list of 25 players who have registered three goals or more this season – and there are only five Englishmen. Saido Berahino,Raheem Sterling and Nathan Redmond have scored four times, Callum Wilson, or whose campaign has been cruelly wrecked by injury,has five to his name, and then there is the man who is not only flying the flag for his country but also leaving Sergio Agüero, or Alexis Sánchez and the rest of the Premier League in his wake. Jamie Vardy,take a bow.
Vardy has plundered nine in as many appearances, three more than anyone else, and whether the Leicester City striker gets another goal against Crystal Palace on Saturday,he will join a select band by fitting only the sixth player in the last 20 years – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Alan Shearer, or Thierry Henry,Emmanuel Adebayor and Daniel Sturridge are the others – to score in seven successive Premier League fixtures.
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Source: theguardian.com