Havertz scored the late winner in the Premier League fixture against Brentford at the weekend before opening the scoring in the Champions League clash against RC Lens.
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Arsenal produced a scintillating display to get past RC Lens 6-0 in a Champions League group match on Wednesday night. As a result, the Gunners topped Group B in some style to book their ticket to the knockout stages of the competition. There were plenty of positives to take from the dominating performance. One of the biggest was the recent good run of big-money summer signing Kai Havertz. It was the second successive game in which Havertz has scored for Arsenal.
Havertz scored the late winner in the Premier League fixture against Brentford at the weekend before opening the scoring in the Champions League clash against RC Lens. Asked about Havertz scoring in back-to-back games, Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta, quoted by the club’s website, said, “Yes, scoring goals, playing well, participating in wins; those are positive attributes. You’ve seen the reception of his team-mates, the crowd singing his name and being with him in every positive action that he had, those are all good things that are going to help him to show why he’s a tremendous player.”
Arteta also spoke about what this result would do to improve the confidence of his players. “With him [Saka], with everybody, Gabriel Jesus as well is in tremendous form in the Champions League, today we share six different scorers, so that’s great that the team has this capacity, Kai again scored two goals in two games, that’s really good for the confidence of the players,” he elaborated.
The Arsenal manager said the performance on the night was something beyond that he dreamed, as he was pleased with the opening 30 minutes. “I didn’t even dream like this, but we had the chance to qualify today and become top of the group and we’ve done it in a really convincing way against a really good side and I think the team right from the beginning showed a lot of aggression and determination to go for the game, everything happened in the right way especially in the first 30 minutes and that was really helpful to win the game,” he explained.
Arteta was then asked whether the emphatic 6-0 win was a statement victory in the Champions League. The manager replied: “It’s a great that we are able to win in this way, but I think consistently we have shown at home not to concede any goals, and score a lot of goals, that’s a really positive factor, those players need to have those experiences, and believe that we can do it against big opponents, now let’s wait, we have to park it and in February we will know who we are facing and let’s see how we are in that moment.”
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