Player Comparison : 2019/20

Record breakers : King of assists Kevin De Bruyne vs Thomas Müller

There are three players with 20+ assists in 2019/20 season, other being Messi. Here we are only comparing two of them ( De Bruyne & Müller), Messi is Messi : So, he isn't here on the list. With  Lionel Messi (Barcelona, 21 assists) along with  Thomas Müller (Bayern München, 21 assists)  leading the assists charts in top 5 leagues closely followed by Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City, 21 assists).

Thomas Müller

What a season for the fan favorite at Allianz Arena, Muller struggled to perform ; regularly finding himself on the bench. He made just three starts under then manager Niko Kovac. He recorded four assists and failed to find the back of the net in eleven appearances. However, the appointment of Hansi Flick in September appears to have flicked a magic wand in Muller’s direction. The German has been on a non-stop sensational form; so far he has contributed eight goals and seventeen assists in 24 games under Flick. Flick has allowed Müller the creative freedom he needs to dictate the game in midfield, finding space to bring teammates into threatening positions. Müller has created a whopping 2.9  chances per game, and has created a total of 26 big chances. Thomas Muller has a pass completion rate of 75.92 % and a rate of 60% for passes into the box.He's excepted assists are at 12.7, The expected assists (xA) metric measures the underlying creativity of a player’s passes. He has created 96 chances this season.Unlike xG, a player having more assists than their xA does not necessarily mean they’re overperforming individually because the conversion of their passes into goals is dependent on the players receiving these passes.

Kevin De Bruyne

De Bruyne can count himself unlucky to have not overtaken Thierry Henry's Premier League record for the most assists in a single season, instead drawing level with his tally of 20.But De Bruyne actually believes that he did indeed break Henry's record, opining in his post-match interview that the Premier League robbed him of two assists against Arsenal. De Bruyne remarked: "I have got two more. You guys took two away from me. I’m still claiming that one. For me I was already there.” Simultaneously he saw his own Bundesliga record of 20 assists, set while playing for Wolfsburg in 2014/15,surpassed by his German rival. Kevin De Bruyne has created 33 big chances. While creating 3.8 chances per game.Kevin de Bruyne has a pass completion rate of 76.95% and a rate of 50 % for passes into the box. He has created a whopping 136 chances in Premier league, his closest rival Grealish has created only 91 chances. De Bruyne became the quickest player to reach 50 assists, the only to reach 15+ assists in three successive seasons. Henry said that De Bruyne foreshadowed his name standing next to his : “In the Belgium national team we used to joke about the assists record and I always used to say: ‘You were not far this year,’ and he would always say: ‘I’ll get you one day’.” No wonder he’s not too bothered about sharing the record.

Verdict

No wonder both of them had a wonderful season, but for me personally De Bruyne had a better season than his German counterpart. He was creating chances for fun, had they finished off their chances. De Bruyne would hold the record(most assists in premier league season). At some point in the season he was in Ballon d'Or conversation. So, for me De Bruyne had the better season out of this two.