Arteta bought the German international to play as a creative No 8 but instead he is blossoming as a goalscoring centre-forward
“Kai is a player of top quality,” he said. “He has great versatility and is an intelligent player. He will bring a huge amount of extra strength to our midfield and variety to our play.” Note the word midfield and not attack in that sentence.
“A lot of times the players decide where they have to play,” Arteta said of Havertz’s position after Saturday’s comfortable 3-0 win over Brighton. “You can have certain ideas but then you see certain relationships and it flows. When it flows you have to let it go. There were two moments, in particular, that encapsulated that. The first came right at the end of the first half when Havertz barged Lewis Dunk over inside the penalty area as though they were teenagers separated by four age groups in secondary school.
The second instance was his goal, assisted after a long-busting run into the box by Jorginho, of all people. Havertz correctly predicted where his teammate of four years would roll the ball, bundled his way in between Brighton’s centre-backs and opened his body up to score with his instep. Anticipation, movement, finish: the three pillars of striker play, each ticked off in a matter of seconds.
The assist for Leandro Trossard’s late third added gloss to his and Arsenal’s evening, a satisfying clincher that made a hellish commute back to London on a dismally unpredictable rail service that bit sweeter for the travelling fans. That statement is backed up by Arsenal’s recent impenetrability. They have now kept seven clean sheets in their last 10 matches in all competitions and managed five consecutive shutouts in the league for the first time since the Famous Five days in 1997. Such defensive dominance is doing wonders for their goal difference too: theirs is +51, a tally superior to Liverpool’s record by nine and City’s by 11. It could yet prove crucial.
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