Kai Havertz turned simply the second participant ever to attain in seven consecutive video games on the Emirates Stadium, equalling Robin van Persie’s document.
The German has been in distinctive type so far throughout the 2024/25 season, performing brilliantly as each a quantity 9 and a de facto quantity ten in current weeks – due to Martin Odegaard’s ankle harm. Havertz continued his effective type this previous week in each the UEFA Champions League and Premier League, netting his fifth and sixth objectives of the season to date in opposition to Paris Saint-Germain and Southampton.
His objective in opposition to Southampton proved to be significantly essential because it not solely set Arsenal on their strategy to full an important comeback and win 3-1, but in addition etched his title within the membership’s historical past books too.
Havertz turned simply the fifth Arsenal participant within the membership’s historical past to attain in seven straight dwelling video games in all competitions, becoming a member of Van Persie, Thierry Henry, Doug Lishman and Ted Drake – who achieved the feat on two events – in doing so.
The German’s purple patch on the Emirates dates again to the ultimate day of the 2023/24 marketing campaign wherein he netted one among Arsenal’s two objectives in opposition to Everton. Since then, Havertz has managed to attain in opposition to Wolves, Brighton, Leicester, PSG and Southampton in north London.
If the 25-year-old manages to attain within the Shakhtar Donetsk on October 22 within the UEFA Champions League, he’ll match the membership’s outright document of objectives in eight straight dwelling video games. The document is at present held collectively by Jimmy Mind, Lishman and, in fact, Henry – who achieved the feat in 2000.
