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Bukayo Saka On Course To Break Premier League Per-Season Assist Record After Scintillating Southampton Display

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Published10 hours ago on October 05, 2024

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Two more Bukayo Saka assists in Arsenal’s 3-1 win over Southampton means the winger is on course to smash the Premier League per-season record. 

Saka registered his 6th and 7th assists of the season as the Gunners came from behind to beat the Saints at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

The England star even helped himself to the third goal to wrap up the points for Mikel Arteta’s side. Now, the north Londoners trail league-leaders Liverpool by a single point going into the international break.

Bukayo Saka Assists Tally Set To Better Arsenal Legend

The Bukayo Saka assists tally for the 2024/25 Premier League season is truly astonishing. His latest brace against struggling Southampton means he has seven in seven this year.

No player in Europe’s top five leagues has more than the 23-year-old. From star boy to star man, Saka is now chasing down the assists per-season record currently shared by Kevin De Bruyne and Arsenal legend Thierry Henry.

Both players each recorded 20 assists in a single season. De Bruyne doing so in 2019/20 and Henry back in the 2002/03 campaign.

However, both players will be anxious about losing their impressive feats to the imperious Saka. At this rate, the Arsenal winger will claim the record just after the 20-game mark.

Granted, it seems unlikely Saka will smash the record that quick. But then again, it isn’t out of the realms of possibility. Mikel Arteta’s main man actually had one scrubbed off his tally against Leicester City on matchday 6.

That was due to Wilfried Ndidi scoring an own goal. Nonetheless, it’ll take something biblical to stop Saka cruising past the 20 assists mark in the Premier League this season.

After their latest victory, the best football betting sites in the UK make Arteta’s side the new 5/4 favourites to go on and claim their first league title since 2004 this season.