Assists of the Week - Sunday 26th September 2010

Serie A dominates this week's selection, my personal favourite being Andrea Lazzari's delightful outside-of-the-boot throughball in Cagliari's 2-4 defeat to Juventus.

Manchester United Attacking Statistics 2007/2008

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Standout attacking performances:

Carlos Tevez
2 goals, 1 assist
Man Utd 6-0 Newcastle

Cristiano Ronaldo
1 goal, 2 key passes
Sunderland 0-4 Man Utd (Premier League)

Cristiano Ronaldo
3 goals
Man Utd 6-0 Newcastle (Premier League)

Cristiano Ronaldo
2 goals, 1 assist
Newcastle 1-5 Man Utd (Premier League)

Cristiano Ronaldo
1 goal, 3 assists
Man Utd 4-0 Villa (Premier League)

Cristiano Ronaldo
2 goals, 1 assist
Man Utd 4-1 West Ham (Premier League)

Cristiano Ronaldo
2 goals, 1 key pass
Dynamo Kiev 2-4 Man Utd (Champions League)

Nani
1 goal, 2 assists
Man Utd 4-0 Arsenal (FA Cup)

Wayne Rooney
1 goal, 1 assist, 1 key pass
Man Utd 4-0 Wigan (Premier League)

Wayne Rooney
1 goal, 2 assists
Man Utd 4-1 Middlesbrough (Premier League)

Wayne Rooney
2 goals, 1 assist, 1 key pass
Newcastle 1-5 Man Utd (Premier League)

Arsenal 2-3 West Brom - A Comedy of Errors

Not much to say about this defeat really, for 70 mins Arsenal put on a textbook display of how to lose a football match in a game that they were really expected to win quite comfortably.

Some grim stats:

-Eboue completed 8/15 passes in 56 minutes

-3/10 of Arshavin's corners found a teammate

-Nasri completed 1 pass into the box (a corner)

-Song won 5/11 tackles

-Eboue and Rosicky attempt 0 tackles; Koscielny and Diaby lost the 2 tackles they each attempted

-Clichy lost 6/7 aerial duels

-Nasri attempted 10 shots; the next highest was Sagna with 4; Chamakh and Arshavin managed 3 apiece in 90 minutes

-West Brom had 5 shots on target during the match, they scored from 3 of them; Arsenal had 6 shots on target despite having 30% more possession

-Arsenal conceded 2 goals within the space of 3 minutes

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Sit back and admire the incompetence on display: