Bukayo Saka out to match Bergkamp, Kane record against Sheffield United
The 22-year-old continues to outline his credentials as one of the best players in the land with an exceptional 16 goals and 13 assists from 34 matches in all tournaments for Mikel Arteta's side during the current campaign.
Thirteen of those efforts and eight of those assists have come in 25 Premier League appearances for Saka, who has hit a rich vein of scoring form with seven goals in his last five top-flight outings.
That hot streak includes braces in both of Arsenal's most recent away games, a 6-0 thrashing of West Ham United to match their biggest league away win of all time, and the subsequent 5-0 crushing of Burnley.
Saka also got the Emirates crowd off their feet with a goal in last weekend's 4-1 win over Newcastle United, thereby netting for the fifth Premier League game in a row, the first English player to do so for Arsenal since Ian Wright in 1994.
The Hale End graduate could now etch his name into another chapter of history, as he is on the cusp of becoming just the third player in Premier League history to score multiple goals in three successive away games in the tournament.
Only ex-Arsenal striker Bergkamp and erstwhile Tottenham talisman Kane have achieved the feat in the Premier League, the former doing so against Chelsea, Leicester City and Southampton in the 1997-98 campaign.
Meanwhile, Kane — the second-highest scorer in Premier League history — emulated Bergkamp's feat 20 years later, hitting braces against Everton, West Ham United and Huddersfield Town in the 2017-18 season.
Saka will bid to become the third member of that
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