Henry, Aguero, Jelavic....and Chadwick! as Everton FC have three in Premier League goals per minute top 10

IT’S a quiz question to baffle even the most clued-in football anorak.

Everton, the club which seems to have spent the entire Premier League era searching for a goalscorer, has THREE players in the Premier League’s all-time minute-to-goal scorers’ chart.

No prizes for guessing that the red-hot Nikica Jelavic is one. But who are the other marksmen whose goalscoring ratios has put even Thierry Henryin the shade?

Newcastle’s stunningly successful January signing, Papiss Cisse, tops the chart with a goal every 68 minutes since he arrived on Tyneside from Freiburg. But second on the list, with a goal every 92 minutes, is another striking import who was in action for Everton reserves yesterday – Apostolos Vellios.

After a five-minute cameo against Aston Villa, the Greek striker scored as a second half substitute against Wigan, took just 10 seconds to score after coming on at Stamford Bridge – then scored against Bolton Wanderers a full three minutes after entering the fray!

Nick Chadwick was another striking supersub who burst onto the scene in 2001.

After a handful of fleeting substitute appearances during the closing stages of Walter Smith’s reign as manager, it was the arrival of David Moyes which coaxed a prolific burst.

Chadwick scored against Bolton just 16 minutes after coming on, added another against Leicester two minutes after replacing Tomasz Radzinski then enjoyed his first full 90 minutes against Blackburn a fortnight later. He scored again.

Overtaken in the strikers’ pecking order by one Wayne Rooney, Chadwick left Goodison but continued to score goals for Derby, Millwall, Hereford, Shrewsbury, Chester, Barrow and Stockport.

He is still playing for League Two club Plymouth Argyle and still scoring – although not as prolifically as he did in his brief Premier League spell.

PREM ALL-TIME HIGHEST MINUTE-TO-GOAL SCORERS: 1. Papiss Cisse (Newcastle 2012) 11 goals, 68.5 mins per goal; 2. 2. Apostolos Vellios (Everton 2010-12) 3, 92.3; 3. Steve Thompson (Burnley 2009-10) 4, 95; 4. Pavel Pogrebnyak (Fulham 2012) 6, 105.8; 5. Sergio Aguero (Man City 2011-12) 22, 106.7; 6. Nikica Jelavic (Everton 2012) 6, 115.5; 7. Nick Chadwick (Everton 2001-05) 3 120; 8. Thierry Henry (Arsenal 2000-12) 176, 121.1; 9. Javier Hernandez (Man Utd 2010-12) 23, 124.8; 10. Mario Balotelli (Man City 2010-12) 19, 126.2.