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RASHFORD SETS NEW ASSISTS RECORD – OR DOES HE?
In the era of Fantasy Football and highly scrutinised stats, assists have almost become as vital a part of an attacker’s repertoire as goals.
While players like Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Mason Greenwood and Edinson Cavani, as well as rival hitmen like Mohamed Salah and Harry Kane, will always be judged primarily on how often they find the back of the net, the regularity with which they set up team-mates is also now measured and often quoted, with goals and assists even combined as part of the ‘goal involvements’ stat.
However, while scoring stats are indisputable – bar the odd review by the Premier League’s Dubious Goals Panel – the world of recording assists is a bit murkier.