Kai Havertz is experiencing a stunning comeback after his auspicious start to the season. He’s improving game after game, and his influence is beginning to be seen. We’ve been writing piece after piece about why Havertz is starting to prove his worth, and he did the same against Villa.
The ex-Blue was outstanding in Arsenal’s 1-0 loss to Aston Villa on Saturday night.
The Gunners were looking to make it 7 victories in a row, but with two goals ruled out and a penalty not given, they lost to Villa after failing to produce a comeback after falling behind to a 7th minute John McGinn goal.
It was a disappointing night for the Gunners, but there were some takeaways from the encounter. Havertz’s performance was one of these pluses. The German was perhaps Arsenal’s strongest performer against Villa. He should have had a handful of assists if the Gunners, especially Odegaard, had been crisper in front of a goal, but he also had a goal ruled out in injury time.
As Arsenal’s left-sided No. 8, he made wonderful runs, and things would have been different if his teammate, Martin Odegaard, had taken advantage of these opportunities.
With that defeat, Arsenal, who had led the league for some time, has dropped to second place, one point behind Liverpool, and they now need to put their heads down and claw their way back to the top.
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I cant observe any player with an exceptional performance against Villa. They all did OK. Havertz performance is improving fast and it’s hard to not add him to starting 11 in the absence of TPathey. His physicality, challenging for dwells and threats in the box is very needed in physical Epl matches and helping us to dominate our opponents. No player with a perfect 👌 performance in the game.
Write any international footballer in the PL at your peril!!
He’s making some so called “experts” on JA look daft!!
When he proves his worth it will show itself without need of weekly articles convincing us of his worth.
The big German delivered a solid performance during the 1 – 0 premier league defeat at Aston Villa.
Arsenal deserves something from the game if you ask me, Havertz must was seeing his name on the back pages again scoring a last minute goal when the ball went in, to capped off another spirited performance from the much maligned player.
But maybe the power that be could not afford another calibration of a last gasp goal, for which ironically the gaffer was presently banished from the touch line for.
Though the goal was chalked off in stoppage time for handball, he should have had a couple of assists during the game.
The former Chelsea man delivered two key passes into the path of captain Odegaard, but was disappointed with the finishing on both occasions.
Aside from the big German build up play, he won countless duels and three tackles, but things could have been very different had his final passes been capitalized upon.
I think so
His stints in the LB position for Germany seemed to have improved his confidence and positioning skills. I hope he will play the role again
I hope not for us lol.
GAI he played one game at LB for Germany who lost the game.The Manager was crucified by the German press for his “crazy experiment” which he subsequently admitted he would not be repeating.I know you love your football and the tactics used by Managers, but in reality Havertz decent performance against Villa had nothing whatsoever to do with his outing in defence for Germany.
Grandad, Havertz played the role twice and lost both friendly games. Nagelsmann was criticized for the experiment, but I understand what he wanted to do and I hope he dares to do it in non-friendly matches
Incremental improvement each game by Havertz, let’s keep it going. If Havertz missed the scoring opportunities Odegaard missed, he would have been roasted again.
Absolutely 100% correct JBG5, the trouble is, he was a “chelsea reject” so things won’t change for some fans!!
Ken once again you are missing the glaringly obvious.
I have high hopes for Havertz but that being said he’s had maybe 3-4 decent games out of around 25 for us. Ode on the other hand rarely has a bad game but had a off night against Villa.
If you have the odd off night thats usually more acceptable to fans than when 80% of your games have been average to poor. Hence more likely being given a hard time. Very simple to understand.
He was indeed a Chelsea reject we are all hoping will come good for us. It’s not that things won’t change for some fans. It’s that although he has certainly improved in the last few games, many fans are still waiting for him to put up the sort of impressive performances we have seen from the other regular starters to elevate him to the same status
@ JBG5, Odengard has build up credibility with series of consistently sterling performances so he gets somewhat of a free pass for the odd poor game. Havertz is only now starting to deliver performances that fans can appreciate and it has nothing to do with being a Chelsea reject @Ken1945. If he was banging in goals and assists, every fan would been gloating about having prised him away from Chelsea.
Exactly, don’t expect the facts you’ve mentioned to change anything 😀
Isn’t it a bit too early for Harvetz’s supporters to start high fiving our manager and each other on how wrong the nay sayers were. I mean he’s actually a bit more involved in the game now but isn’t that what any average Premier League midfielder come striker is also trying to do? Where are the genius passes and game changing bursts of energy. No Ozil or Gerrard in this guy. I’d wait at least until he helps us win three points at Anfield before blowing his trumpet.
But you guys were quick to criticize him? lol.
Saw some good passes from him – it’s been missing before, and was supposed to be one of his strengths. Fingers crossed but it looks like he’s starting to build his confidence and form.