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CHRIS SUTTON: It's time for Premier League strikers to earn their corn... it's been 100 days since the last match but an early goal should help forwards dust off the cobwebs

Wednesday marks 100 days since the last Premier League match — Leicester 4-0 Aston Villa. That’s a long time for a striker to go without scoring a goal.

Even the window between the end of the 2018-19 season and start of 2019-20 was only 82 days, so we’ve already had a longer break than last summer. With the Premier League restarting on Wednesday and plenty at stake, there is pressure on the strikers to perform.

They are the best-paid in the changing room. They’re the ones there to score the goals that win the games.