Lionel Messi is a different player in the 2022/2023 season. Lionel Messi is now a creative player at PSG and that is evidenced by his status as the king of assists in Ligue 1 so far.
Competition in Europe's top five matches is getting hotter. Not only the club, the players also compete to show their best quality. One of them is in the race for the king of assists title.
The title of the king of assists is often drowned out by the size of the stage for the struggle for the top score. Even though assists are also very important in the process of scoring goals as a determinant of the victory of a match.
Lionel Messi is a very good player when it comes to assists. Together with Messi, here are four players who have become the king of assists in Europe's top competition so far.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic
Milinkovic-Savic has again made a big contribution to Lazio this season. The Serbian central midfielder is the king of assists while in Serie A.
Milinkovic-Savic has scored four assists in six Serie A matches with Lazio. But Milinkovic-Savic had to share his place with Udinese midfielder Roberto Pereyra who collected four assists as well.
Last season, Milinkovic-Savic also became the Lazio player with the highest assists. His 11 assists were only three behind Sassuolo striker Domenico Berardi who became the king of Serie A assists.
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi appeared crazy at the start of the French League season with PSG. Not as a goalscorer, Messi came out as the king of assists while the French League.
Messi managed to score seven assists in seven games with PSG. The incision is only one adrift of his PSG teammate, Neymar.
Messi is indeed a very complete player at the moment. Messi is not only good at scoring goals, but he is also very good at providing assists.
Messi even immediately scored 14 assists in his first season with PSG. That nick only lost three to Kylian Mbappe who came out as the king of assists in the French League.
Joao Felix
This season has been a testament to Joao Felix at Atletico Madrid. Atletico Madrid's most expensive player has successfully become the king of assists while in La Liga.
Until the 5th Jornada, Felix managed to record three assists for Atletico Madrid. Felix is side by side with RCD Mallorca's attacking midfielder, Lee Kang-In.
The three assists marks a good start for Felix's career at Atletico Madrid. Felix had never previously scored more than six assists in a season under Diego Simeone.
Kevin De Bruyne
Kevin De Bruyne again proved his skill in scoring assists. De Bruyne currently leads the list of assists in the Premier League.
De Bruyne who has turned 31 years old still has a sharp instinct in scoring assists. From six games, De Bruyne managed to score four assists for Manchester City.
This status will be De Bruyne's comeback to hunt for the Premier League assist king title. De Bruyne last felt the title when he was able to score 20 assists in the 2019/2020 Premier League season.
Randal Kolo Muani
The Bundesliga runs more interesting in the 2022/2023 season. Bayern Munich, which every time dominates in the standings as well as the list of top scores and top assists, is finally rivaled by other teams.
In the list of assists, Randal Kolo Muani leads the Bundesliga temporarily. The Eintracht Frankfurt attacking midfielder scored four assists until the 6th week of the Bundesliga.
The presence of Muani as the top assist temporarily signaled the break in Thomas Muller's dominance. The Bayern Munich attacking midfielder has been the Bundesliga assist king for the last three seasons.
Source: Whoscore and Transfermarkt