Dream goal and entrance chaos
Havertz and Arsenal have to tremble unnecessarily in the end
08/12/2023 4:43 p.m
Kai Havertz remains on the road to success with Arsenal London: after winning the Supercup, the new Premier League season has also got off to a successful start. Before the game there is a little chaos, at the end you have to tremble for a moment.
German national soccer player Kai Havertz celebrated a successful start to the new season of the English Premier League with Arsenal. The Londoners deservedly won 2-1 (2-0) against Nottingham Forest in the first game at home. Eddie Nketiah (26th minute) and Bukayo Saka (32nd) with a remarkable long-range shot scored at the Emirates Stadium for the runner-up, who had been dominating the game for a long time. However, Taiwo Awoniyi (82′) made things exciting again with the goal for Nottingham in the closing stages.
Havertz, who switched from league competitor FC Chelsea to the Gunners in the summer, was in the starting XI, as in Arsenal’s Community Shield success against Manchester City a week ago (4-1 penalties). Coach Mikel Arteta did not send the 24-year-old in attack this time, but in midfield alongside Martin Ödegaard and Declan Rice, who had long switched from FC Bayern Munich and then from West Ham to London for 116 million euros. Bad luck for Arsenal: Dutchman Jurrien Timber, who came from Ajax Amsterdam in the summer, had to be substituted after 50 minutes due to injury.
The game in north London had started half an hour late due to difficulties at the entrance. As British media reported, there had been technical problems at the turnstiles of the Emirates Stadium. Therefore, hundreds of spectators were still waiting in front of the entrance at the originally planned kick-off time.