Move Over Mo Salah, Aubameyang And Sterling - This Bournemouth Duo Are The Most Potent Pairing In The Premier League

Move Over Mo Salah, Aubameyang And Sterling - This Bournemouth Duo Are The Most Potent Pairing In The Premier League
07:40, 23 Jan 2019

Only one week of the January transfer window remains and plenty of clubs will still be keen to get some business done, while others, like Bournemouth, will be desperately hoping to keep hold of their most prized assets.

There have been persistent rumours linking their star striker Callum Wilson with a move away from the South Coast but the England forward remains at the Vitality Stadium following one of the most productive campaigns of his career.

Wilson is enjoy his best ever season in the Premier League after reaching double-figures in terms of goals for the very first time, although he will have to enjoy a sensational run-in to the end of the year to match the 21 league goals he scored for Coventry during the 2013/14 League One season.

The fact he was playing in the third tier of English football five years ago shows what a remarkable rise it has been for the 26-year-old, who has struck up quite an understanding with Ryan Fraser.

While the likes of Mohamed Salah, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Raheem Sterling gain much of the national media coverage for their exploits on a weekly basis, Fraser is quietly going about his business in typically understated fashion.

Only Eden Hazard, with ten, has laid on more assists in the Premier League this term and Fraser is flourishing in Eddie Howe's attack-minded team. Admittedly, the Cherries endured a terrible run either side of Christmas as they won just two of fourteen games in all competitions during a particularly dire period, although they appear to be turning a corner as a 3-3 draw with Watford and a 2-0 win against West Ham sandwiched a luckless defeat at Everton.

Wilson and Fraser were at the centre of both of the positive results in recent weeks and it isn't a coincidence that Wilson missed the Everton loss through injury.

Fraser no doubt missed his partner in crime as the Scottish dynamo has laid on four goals for his prolific teammate - it is the most productive assist-goal partnership in the Premier League. It isn't all a one way street though as Wilson has also laid on three assists for Fraser, meaning that this Bournemouth duo are the most potent in the Premier League when it comes to laying on goals for one another (the next best are Manchester City's Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane, who have laid on three goals each for one another, while Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Aaron Ramsey have set up three goals for each other).

This transfer window can't close quickly enough for Bournemouth fans as they desperately hope that the Fraser-Wilson partnership can continue to bear fruit until the summer, when the transfer rumour mill will whir back into gear.

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