2023-06-29 10:49:00
It is easy to see why the German player was interested in leaving Chelsea and why Arsenal wanted to include him. This is what “The Analyst” described about the Havertz deal between the two poles…
repost- It is easy to see why the German player was interested in leaving Chelsea and why Arsenal wanted to sign him.The AnalystOn the Havertz deal between the two poles of London.
After 3 years at Chelsea, Havertz left the team after scoring 32 goals and making 12 in 139 games, and the most important shot remains his goal in the Champions League final against Manchester City in 2021.
Arsenal announced the official inclusion of Havertz on a long-term contract, so why did the Gunners want to include the German player and how would he benefit from him?
The most important question here is not where Havertz will play at Arsenal, but rather how to build a strong list for the team next season, in light of the return of the Gunners to the Champions League and the attempt to compete with City for the English Premier League title.
Arsenal needs players to make coach Mikel Arteta’s list full of options in more than one position, and the German will help with that.
The following image shows the positions in which Kai played with Bayer Leverkusen between 2016-17 and 2019-20.
It shows that the best position for him is the attacking midfielder (10) and the central midfielder.
While during 3 seasons with Chelsea between 2020-2021 and 2022-23, he played 65% of the minutes he played in the striker position.
The question here is in which position will he play in Arsenal?
As the previous picture, the German played 65% of his time with Chelsea as an outspoken striker, in every 90 minutes he had 0.36 expected goals in the English Premier League.
It is the third highest rate for any player since his arrival in the Premier League in 2020, but those numbers are not good for a team that needs a top scorer.
The problem is that Chelsea was asking the player to play as a pure striker, as he was not associated with any defensive work and did not focus on the process of linking play.
4 coaches took over the German, starting with Frank Lampard, Thomas Tuchel, Graham Potter and Lampard again, and relied on him in this position, despite the presence of other elements such as Timo Werner, Romelu Lukaku and Armando Proya, who suffered from injury, as well as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Harverst previously declared himself:A midfield player, no more, no less, but I prefer going into the penalty area“.
In training, he seems to be able to play the role of a false striker better than a central striker.
It seems that this may be available to him at Arsenal, going deep and using his skills, taking advantage of Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli on both sides.
And Arteta may try to return the position of the second striker to benefit from the maximum skills of the German, which emerged in Leverkusen.
He may play in the center of the midfielder (8), and there appears the importance that the player can occupy more than one position in the formation and will benefit Arsenal.
Last season, only Harry Kane and Leandro Trossard made more chances than Havritz (33) from open play, and they passed more into the opponent’s penalty area than him.
Only Danny Willibac (82.9%), Julian Alvarez (80.7%) and Roberto Firmino (79.5%) of the attackers have a better percentage of correct passes under pressure than Havertz (78%), which shows his ability to link the middle to attack.
The 193-centimetre-tall German is a strength that the team lacks in the penalty area.
Without the defenders, the 24-year-old player comes in fourth place in the English Premier League, winning with 79 aerial struggles, or 57.2%, after Thomas Sochik, West Ham midfielder (114), Brentford striker Evan Toni (109), and Fulham striker Alexander Mitrovic (100).
The German also has great moves to find spaces and he is coming from behind in order to take advantage of crosses, which is shown in the following pictures.
His ability to run with and without the ball and cover spaces in the Premier League season 2022-2023 also demonstrates this.
It always appears between the first 2 and the first 3 in all stats related to running with or even without the ball.
Targeted runs: running without a ball where a teammate targets him in order to pass the ball to him.
Without a ball, Havertz also appears, as he is the second player to pressure the opponent in Chelsea in the Premier League season, after Connor Gallagher, at a rate of 26.7 per 90 minutes.
He comes third, after Manchester City striker Erling Haaland and Bournemouth striker Dominic Solanke, in this matter for attacking players.
In the middle of this month, Havertz completed his 24th year, which means that Arsenal will include a player who is heading towards the best periods of his career.
A player who won the Champions League and has experience in the English Premier League and participated in the World Cup. At this age, perhaps it is not usual, but it seems that Arsenal is already thinking about that.
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