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Playing up front in this Everton team can be a lonely existence.

Thankfully, Cenk Tosun is showing himself able to survive on scraps.

The January signing from Besiktas only had one attempt on goal at Huddersfield Town on Saturday but he buried it to help set Sam Allardyce's side on their way to a 2-0 win.

The deadly right foot strike was the 26-year-old's fifth since arriving at Goodison and boosted a remarkable set of stats which highlight his ruthless streak in front of goal.

Tosun has registered just 17 shots in 12 Premier League appearances yet has a shooting accuracy of 47% with eight of his efforts on target.

The league's leading scorer, Liverpool's Mo Salah, has a shooting accuracy of 46% while Harry Kane, next in the charts, has an accuracy of 41%.

Top marksman Salah is averaging nearly a goal every game and Kane has a goals to games ratio of 0.79 but Tosun is no slouch either, scoring once every two starts and in an Everton side that are among the least creative in the division.

(Image: Nigel French/PA Wire)

Indeed ahead of the Huddersfield game the Blues, under Big Sam, were ranked 19 for shots, shots on target and chances created yet Tosun continues to buck the trend with a killer eye in front of goal.

The Turkey international has missed, what the Premier League label as, only two big chances while he has shown himself able to score a variety of goals with two headers, two with his right foot and one with his left making up his total.

Tosun can spend long spells of games on the periphery but his recent form shows that if Everton provide the service he will deliver.