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Sacha Kljestan has tallied 12 assists so far this season (all in league play, as it happens), including two in the New York Red Bulls' most recent game - the 4-1 win over NYCFC.
Kljestan is the leading assist-maker in MLS, despite the fact his contributions against NYCFC were his first assists since May. And he is on track for another notable assist-making season by the standards of RBNY.
In 2015, Kljestan tallied 16 assists for the Red Bulls in all competitions: the joint second best assist-making season in club history. And he had 14 assists in league games: the joint best single-season assist total for a Red Bulls player in MLS regular season matches.
In 2016, he's not far away from setting a new single-season assists record for RBNY.
But the future is uncertain. What is certain is that Kljestan's continued prolific assist-making is rocketing him up the Red Bulls' all-time, all-competitions assists list. Per MetroFanatic.com's statistics archive, Sacha now has 28 career assists for RBNY in all competitions, and that puts him joint fifth on the all-time list.
All-Time Assists Position | Name | Games Played | Games Started | Minutes | Assists |
1st | Thierry Henry | 135 | 130 | 11510 | 49 |
T - 2nd | Amado Guevara | 117 | 114 | 10284 | 39 |
T - 2nd | Tab Ramos | 131 | 122 | 10447 | 39 |
4th | Dane Richards | 176 | 148 | 13413 | 30 |
T - 5th | Sacha Kljestan | 63 | 61 | 5270 | 28 |
T - 5th | Mark Chung | 98 | 90 | 8237 | 28 |
And he's tied with Dan Richards for fourth on the club's all-time MLS regular season assist list.
Congrats, Sacha!