The forward, who netted 22 goals in 44 matches last term, saved his very best strike of the campaign for last October’s Carabao Cup fourth round-meeting with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, when he unleashed a phenomenal free-kick from long distance.
It was one of 10 efforts selected for our Goal-of-the-Season poll earlier this month, and the 22-year-old’s free-kick finished top of the pile by a significant margin.
Marcus secured an impressive 38.8 per cent of the vote for his cup cracker, more than double the number of people who selected second-placed Bruno Fernandes’s team effort against Brighton & Hove Albion (15.