The DFB team is also missing
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This article was first published on February 12th. at 5:10 p.m. and was updated after confirmation of the association.
The season is over for Kai Havertz. The national striker suffered a severe thigh injury in the training of FC Arsenal and fails for a long time, as the Gunners confirmed on Thursday. The injury makes an operation necessary. According to the second in the table of the English Premier League, the rehab process will extend beyond the season. The former Leverkusener will only be recovered to prepare for the coming season.
Havertz will also lack the DFB selection in the quarter-finals of the Nations League against Italy in March. “The news of the injury is very bitter and a bitter loss for us as a team,” said national coach Julian Nagelsmann. “We will be there for him and always support him on his way back to the square.”
For Arsenal, his failure means a bitter blow in the title race, the 25-year-old is the best striker of the Gunners with 15 goals so far. Arsenal is currently six points behind leaders FC Liverpool. Havertz had contracted the injury in the short training camp in Dubai. The operation will be due in the coming days, it says on the part of the club. Havertz had returned to London with the team late on Tuesday evening.
Coach Mikel Areta is swinging the options on the offensive. The Spaniard had recently “disappointed” that Arsenal had not improved in the past winter transfer window. With Bukayo Saka, the most valuable player in Areta’s squad is probably missing until April, while Gabriel Jesus and Havertz is injured for the rest of the season. “We had the clear intention to improve the squad with players who can improve him. (…) We have not achieved this and are disappointed in this regard. But we are aware that we only want to get certain types of players. We also have to be disciplined in this regard and I think we were, ”said Areteta at a press conference.