Kai Havertz matches Chelsea tally with Arsenal

Arsenal ahead Kai Havertz has already matched his Premier League output for Chelsea in far fewer appearances, after his newest purpose on Saturday.

Kai Havertz scored Arsenal’s fourth purpose in a dominant show for the Gunners on Saturday, with Mikel Arteta’s facet finally profitable the match 5-2.

The purpose turned out to be comparatively vital within the context of the match, with West Ham scoring twice to peg Arsenal again to 4-2 within the fortieth minute. Nerves actually would have been jangling if Havertz had missed his shot and the rating had been 3-2 with 50 minutes to play.

However greater than that, the purpose was additionally vital when it comes to Havertz’s Arsenal profession.

Havertz now has 26 objectives and assists in 49 Premier League video games since signing for Arsenal, which is the very same quantity he managed in three full seasons for Chelsea. However he made 91 league appearances with them, so he’s achieved the identical whole in 42 fewer video games.

Admittedly, Havertz wasn’t at all times a starter for Chelsea, however the stats are nonetheless closely in Arsenal’s favour in per-minute phrases. Havertz performed 5,910 league minutes for Chelsea, and he’s as much as simply 3,720 with Arsenal.

So the German worldwide has contributed a purpose or help each 227 minutes for the Blues, and each 143 minutes for the Gunners. That’s a distinction of 84 minutes, nearly a complete sport.

And that’s to not point out the truth that Havertz solely actually began scoring for Arsenal after his transfer to centre-forward in February of this 12 months. He had 5 objectives in six months earlier than that, and 18 within the 9 months since (even together with the summer season break).

In all competitions, Havertz nonetheless has some catching as much as do. He managed 44 objectives and assists in 139 video games for Chelsea, and he’s at 31 in 70 matches for Arsenal. However with 69 video games and simply 13 purpose contributions to go, he’s heading in the right direction.