All-time top assist-providers in the Premier League

#2 Frank Lampard- 102 assists in 618 appearances

Football can often throw up surprises and Frank Lampard’s success as a footballer can be termed as one. Having risen through the ranks at West Ham United, Lampard was considered just another average footballer.

A move to Chelsea in 2001 proved to be the turning point in his career as he not only established himself as one of the best midfielders in England, he also established himself as one of the greatest Chelsea players of all time.

Only the 2nd player ever to have broken past the 100 assists mark, Lampard was critical to his side’s rise to the top of English football and was a name that constantly drew concern lines across the opposition manager’s forehead.

A box-to-box midfielder who could also ply his trade as an attacking midfielder, Lampard had a penchant for providing inch perfect crosses and threading defence splitting passes before the defenders knew what had hit them.

Given that he was often deployed as a central midfielder, the credentials of Lampard as one of the best midfielders to have ever played in the Premier League are further substantiated by the 258 goals he scored apart from the century of assists he raked in.