Stats: Best dynamic duos in Europe's Top 5 leagues this season
Most successful teams have had at least two players steal the show in attack on their way to league title glory. Be it Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp for Arsenal or Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney for Manchester United, these duos produced the goods on a regular basis and laid waste to defences in the league time and again.
This season, too, has seen a number of pairings thrive up front and it comes as no surprise that the best goal-assist combinations have come from teams battling it out for the league title. We look at the five best duos in the 2015/16 league season as we enter the final two months of the campaign.
Honourable mentions
Olivier Giroud & Mesut Ozil (Arsenal): 6 goals
The French striker only had a good mid-season where he scored 18 goals in all competitions between October and January but has not been able to find the net in the league since. A brace in the FA Cup have been the only goals he scored since mid-January.
Ozil, on the other hand, raced away to 18 assists so far this season – just two short of Thierry Henry’s EPL record of 20 assists in a season. Will the record be his by season end? He has eight games to break it.
Odion Ighalo & Troy Deeney (Watford): 6 goals
The Hornets have had a topsy-turvy season since gaining promotion to the Premier League. Playing a majority of their games with a 4-4-2 formation, they were in the top half of the Premier League table, going as high as 7th place at the halfway stage. But their drop in form also coincided with the barren run of Odion Ighalo.
The Nigerian striker has scored only one Premier League goal in 2016 – a far cry from his prime form in 2015 when he was the highest goalscorer in England’s top four tiers for the calendar year. Along with Troy Deeney, they proved to be a nuisance up front, even benefiting from a number of penalties.