Man City: Kevin De Bruyne's greatest ever Premier League assist vs Stoke in 2017

Kevin De Bruyne is silly good at football. Like, seriously.

There are few players in the Premier League who can bring you to your feet by producing an insanely difficult skill while making it look like nothing, but De Bruyne is most certainly one of them.

In the context of winning back-to-back PFA Players’ Player of the Year awards, the Manchester City star hasn’t necessarily been at his world-beating best during the 2021/22 season.

But it’s a testament to just how magical he can be even when he’s not on top form that he still seldom goes a single Premier League game without producing a moment of inspiration.

You only have to look at the viral pass that he played during the 5-0 demolition of Newcastle United to see that the Belgian maestro always has a spark of genius in his back pocket.

In fact, De Bruyne’s latest reminder that he’s arguably the world’s best passer brought out the footballing hipster inside of us and frankly, left us hungry for more.

And trust us when we say that the YouTube rabbit hole you can go down when it comes to De Bruyne’s greatest ever passes and assists is a wonderful one if you’re a footballing purist.

If you’re a cappuccino-loving football hipster chilling out in your 1990s retro jersey, then few things get better than watching the City star pick out passes that you didn’t even think were possible.

And we’ve watched more than enough flashes of De Bruyne genius to have a pretty good idea about the greatest assist that he’s ever delivered during his time in the Premier League.

We are, of course, talking about the outrageous pass that he played to Leroy Sane during the 7-2 obliteration of Stoke City that set the wheels in motion for their historic ‘centurion’ season.

Of all the footballing