​ Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane is on course to scoop a second consecutive Premier League Golden Boot this season , the first Englishman to do so outright (not shared) since Alan Shearer won three in a row 20 long years ago.





Kane scored his 15th, 16th and 17th league goals of the season as Spurs beat Stoke at the weekend. He's now joint top scorer in the division, despite playing fewer games than his nearest rivals, and data courtesy of EA SPORTS can now show that he has also been the most clinical, as well as just frighteningly prolific.

Across three key categories that serve as a measure for just how clinical goalscorers have been, the Tottenham talisman comes out above the rest in all.





Kane has taken an average of just 106 minutes to score each of his 17 Premier League goals this season. That is significantly fewer than the 126 minutes per goal ratio managed by Arsenal's Alexis Sanchez, who boasts the next best return of the current top five scorers.





Romelu Lukaku has taken 128 minutes per goal. Diego Costa is scoring every 132 minutes, while it's an average of 144 for Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Kane is also converting a higher proportion of his shots than anyone else. He's scored 17 times from just 63 attempts at a conversion rate of 27%. Compare that to the more profligate Ibrahimovic who has scored just 14% of his 102 shots so far this season.





Lukaku has scored 25% of his efforts. Costa has been hitting the back of the net with 21.9% of his shots, while Sanchez has scored with fewer than one in five shots (18.7%).





On top of that, Kane is the most deadly in terms of how many touches he needs in the opposition penalty area to do his damage. Bearing in mind that he's joint top scorer, the 23-year-old has only had 5.64 touches per game in the opposing penalty area.

Costa (10.87), Sanchez (10.88) and Ibrahimovic (12.33) are all taking many more touches close to goal each game. At 7.11 penalty area touches per game, Lukaku is the only one of the Premier League's current top strikers to even come close to matching Kane's efficiency.

Data Courtesy of EA SPORTS, the Lead Partner of the Premier League



