Kai Havertz sends timely reminder to Arsenal fans as clamour for new striker increases

Kai Havertz scored erstwhile and assisted different arsenic Arsenal smashed Dinamo Zagreb connected Wednesday night, arsenic reports emerged that the Gunners are eyeing a determination for Benjamin Sesko

Kai Havertz went disconnected to different lasting ovation arsenic Arsenal cruised towards the Champions League knockout stage.

Yes, that’s right. Another lasting ovation. Havertz is besides the subordinate that makes you bash a treble instrumentality erstwhile you look astatine the grounds books this season. Havertz has present got 14 goals successful each competitions, helium provided the assistance for Declan Rice’s opener and was intelligibly the astir influential subordinate connected the pitch.

They were singing their Waka Waka chant aft helium scored - £60m down the drain, Havertz scores again - to amusement they cognize amended than the remainder of us. But they are the ones who are besides clamouring for Arsenal to motion a big-name centre forward this period because, apparently, they request a striker to prevention their season.

What astir the 1 you already have? There is nary escaping that Havertz is not a classical No9, helium does miss chances and yet his 14 goals successful 30 games is amended than past twelvemonth erstwhile it took him 52 games to people 14.

So Havertz is really improving arsenic good arsenic scoring and this play helium is beauteous overmuch a one-in-two striker which is what each Premier League squad wants. To headdress it all, Havertz’s extremity was besides the 500th of Mikel Arteta’s five-year reign arsenic helium has been successful complaint for 266 games.

It was hardly a pugnacious nighttime for Arsenal due to the fact that Dinamo Zagreb were beauteous lame opponents and it was a precession astatine times. No wonder. Dinamo person conscionable returned aft a wintertime interruption of astir a period - and it truly showed.

This was a acquisition for Arsenal and 1 to assistance boost the assurance for the likes of Gabriel Martinelli who got an assistance and Martin Odegaard got his archetypal extremity since the extremity of November.

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They hardly had to interruption into a sweat up of Saturday’s travel to Wolves. Arsenal are not mathematically qualified for automatic qualification for the past 16 but it volition instrumentality a singular crook of results for them to miss retired connected a spot successful the apical eight.

Arsenal request a constituent successful Girona adjacent Wednesday to people their spot adjacent week but adjacent decision would inactive request an unthinkable plaything of goals. They finished the penultimate nighttime of the caller format successful 3rd place.

It was a stroll aft Rice enactment Arsenal up aft conscionable 104 seconds. That is Arsenal’s fastest extremity successful the contention since Yaya Sanogo against Borussia Dortmund successful November, 2014, which was aft conscionable 72 seconds.

Martinelli made a darting tally down the left, Havertz cushioned the transverse and determination was Rice with a perfectly-timed tally to smash location a fractional volley. Arsenal should person got much goals. Gabriel missed a large headed chance, Raheem Sterling inactive looks woefully abbreviated of assurance and fluffed his lines portion Rice had an effort blocked.

It was ever coming, though. Martinelli enactment implicit a teasing transverse successful the 66th infinitesimal and determination was Havertz ghosting successful astatine the backmost station to caput in. His nighttime was done and helium was subbed soon aft to a large reception.

Arteta gave youngster Nathan Butler-Oyedeji his archetypal squad debut portion Ethan Nwaneri was backmost from wounded arsenic different substitute. Good quality arsenic Myles Lewis-Skelly missed retired done injury.

There was inactive clip for Arsenal to get a 3rd successful wounded time. Leandro Trossard’s debased transverse was converted by Odegaard from adjacent range. Arsenal person enactment themselves backmost among the Champions League elite - and present they person to beryllium they beryllium there.

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