{"id":37,"date":"2023-11-27T00:02:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/?p=37"},"modified":"2023-11-27T00:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T00:02:21","slug":"adorable-havertz-ends-goal-drought-to-fire-arsenal-into-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adorable\u2019 Havertz ends goal drought to fire Arsenal into top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-highlight\">\n<ul>\n<li>The 24-year-old midfielder finally gave a glimpse of why Arteta splashed out $80 million to sign him<\/li>\n<li>Havertz\u2019s second goal for Arsenal was his first in his last 10 appearances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2415246\/football\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1587028327889-5\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>LONDON: Mikel Arteta saluted \u201cadorable\u201d Kai Havertz after the German sent Arsenal to the top of the Premier League with the last-gasp goal that clinched a 1-0 win at Brentford on Saturday.<br \/>\nHavertz was a Champions League final hero for Chelsea in 2021, but he has endured a torrid time since crossing London to join Arsenal in the close-season.<br \/>\nThe 24-year-old midfielder finally gave a glimpse of why Arteta splashed out \u00a365 million ($80 million) to sign him when he headed home in the closing minutes.<br \/>\nHavertz\u2019s second goal for Arsenal was his first in his last 10 appearances, moving his team one point clear of second placed Manchester City, who were held to a 1-1 draw by third placed Liverpool earlier in the day.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is the beautiful thing about life. When you have challenges and you have to overcome them, it makes these moments much better,\u201d Arteta said.<br \/>\n\u201cThat is the reason the people reacted to him like that today. It is because he is adorable and he is a joy to work with. He fully deserves more than anybody to get that win.\u201d<br \/>\nArsenal\u2019s third successive win in all competitions proved they have erased the bitter taste of their controversial VAR-aided defeat at Newcastle earlier in November.<br \/>\nArteta\u2019s men had already won at the Gtech Community Stadium in the League Cup in September and they left it late before making it another successful trip to west London.<br \/>\n\u201cI love winning and we are top of the table. This is where we have to want to be,\u201d Arteta said.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen you have an opportunity to take a bite out of everybody you have to do it.<br \/>\n\u201cI was really curious how the team was going to do. Winter has started, it was very cold and it is difficult coming to Brentford. I loved the way the team competed.\u201d<br \/>\nWith on-loan Arsenal keeper David Raya not eligible to play against his parent club, Aaron Ramsdale made his first league start since September 3.<br \/>\nRamsdale\u2019s father recently criticized Arteta\u2019s handling of the Arsenal goalkeeping controversy, with the England international surprisingly losing his place to Raya despite recording the second most Premier League clean-sheets last season.<br \/>\nBut Arteta\u2019s faith in Raya received a boost when Ramsdale, his confidence clearly affected by his spell on the bench, almost gifted Brentford the lead with a horrendous mistake early in the first half.<br \/>\nTrying to play out from the six-yard box after Gabriel\u2019s back-pass, Ramsdale panicked under pressure from Yoane Wissa.<br \/>\nRamsdale missed his kick and the ball rolled to Bryan Mbeumo, whose shot was cleared off the line by Declan Rice before Wissa stabbed the rebound wide.<br \/>\nArteta refused to be drawn on Ramsdale\u2019s shaky performance, saying only: \u201cI am really happy with the team and the way the team played and we kept the clean sheet.\u201d<br \/>\nAfter a slow start from Arsenal, they finally showed signs of life when Trossard headed Oleksandr Zinchenko\u2019s cross over before Gabriel nodded into the side-netting.<br \/>\nArsenal thought they had taken the lead in the 42nd minute when Gabriel Jesus met Bukayo Saka\u2019s cross with a header that was parried by Mark Flekken and Leandro Trossard nodded home from close-range.<br \/>\nBut a VAR check decided Trossard was narrowly offside, giving Arteta another dose of frustration at the hands of the review system.<br \/>\nBrentford nearly made Arsenal pay for their lethargy as Neal Maupay\u2019s header was brilliantly cleared off the line by the stretching Zinchenko before the French forward poked the rebound wastefully wide.<br \/>\nThat proved a crucial moment as Havertz came off the bench to win it in the 89th minute.<br \/>\nSaka\u2019s cross picked out Havertz\u2019s run to the far post and the German guided his header past Flekken as Arteta jumped for joy on the touchline.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 24-year-old midfielder finally gave a glimpse of why Arteta splashed out $80 million to sign him Havertz\u2019s second goal for Arsenal was his first in his last 10 appearances LONDON: Mikel Arteta saluted \u201cadorable\u201d Kai Havertz after the German sent Arsenal to the top of the Premier League with the last-gasp goal that clinched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alnasnews.com.jo\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}