Martial beat the defenders for pace, striding into the penalty area and sliding his finish past the Wolfsburg goalkeeper to give United a dream start to the evening.
The pace bowler beat the bat with arresting regularity and, after four overs, he had conceded a miserly four runs and taken the wicket of Cook.
But they drew an interesting matchup on Thursday against third-seeded Washington State, which likes to slow the pace and beat the Ducks twice in the regular season.
Rangers were given a scare 12 minutes in when Greg Tansey's cross was redirected goalwards by Losana Doumbouya but they were grateful his effort lacked the pace to beat the alert Wes Foderingham.
Orb came from well off the pace to beat the heavily favored Violence and win the Grade II Fountain of Youth Stakes, a major Kentucky Derby prep race in Hallandale Beach, Fla .Ive Struck a Nerve, who went off at odds of 135-to-1 135-to-1 135-to-1edgedn a phout finish in the Grade II Risen Star Stakes in New Orleans in the final prep for the Louisiana Derby.
Ray Rice and Ricky Williams had short touchdown runs and Lardarius Webb returned a punt 68 yards for a score as the Ravens beat the Browns, 24-10, to keep pace with the Steelers.
Ngwenya, a Zimbabwe-born winger, showed blistering pace to beat the tackle of Mike Phillips and go around the outside of Shane Williams, who is regarded as one of the quickest players in the game.
And in his own time, Messi invited the keeper to go down and lobbed the ball daintily over him, with just enough pace to beat the despairing defender Bruno Rodrigo behind the goal line.
This puts the American operation on pace to beat the 2010 total and challenge Toyota's Lexus division for the top spot among luxury nameplates, a position held by Lexus since 2000.
Joel Monaghan forced his way over after smart build-up work from Ratchford and when the stand-off released Matty Russell from inside his own half, the Scotland international had enough pace to beat the chasing pack to the line.
