WILLIAN has amazingly shot to joint-top for Arsenal’s assists this season despite being slammed by the majority of the club’s fans.
The Brazilian helped the Gunners to seal their most-impressive victory since their Boxing Day thumping of Chelsea with their 3-1 win at Leicester.
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Willian has shot to joint-top in the Arsenal assist chartsCredit: AFP
They fell behind after just six minutes at the King Power, but Mikel Arteta’s men rallied and bounced back to win.
Willian played his part in that by making two of the goals – which took him joint top of the assist charts for the North London side.
The winger has come under fierce criticism from Gooners following his controversial move from rivals Chelsea last summer.
Willian, who admitted that he never wanted to leave Stamford Bridge, got off to an impressive start to life at Arsenal.
He provided two assists in the opening day victory over Fulham.
However, he had failed to register any more until yesterday’s clash with the Foxes.
He came off the bench in midweek to tee-up Kieran Tierney as Arsenal came from behind to get past Benfica in the Europa League.
Now he has built on that cameo by crossing for David Luiz’s equaliser at Leicester and then playing in Nicolas Pepe for an easy finish.
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Thanks to those contributions, Willian has now taken his tally of Premier League assists this season to four.
Remarkably, that is enough to put him joint-top of Arsenal’s assist charts in the top-flight.
Youngster Emile Smith Rowe also has four assists to his name.
But his assists have come in four separate matches this season against Chelsea, West Brom, Newcastle United and Leeds compared to Willian’s four in two games.
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Tony Adams says Arsenal wouldn’t be in this position under Arsene Wenger and blasts Willian signing as lazy recruitment
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