“He wasn’t doing very well”
Failure for a test game: concern about DFB star Havertz
07.08.2025 – 06:46 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The Arsenal striker is not used in the test against Villarreal at short notice. After that, “Gunners” coach Mikel Arteta-but remains vague.
Arsenal lost its test game against FC Villarreal with 2: 3 – and had to do without an important player. Kai Havertz was not in the squad at the Duel with the Spanish club on Wednesday at the Emirates Stadium.
At first there was no official justification for the ability of the international. Team manager Mikel Arteta also held back with information after the game. “Yesterday in training he felt something and this morning he was not doing well,” Areteta was then quoted by English media. “That’s why we decided to protect him. I think it will only take a few days, hopefully until the weekend, when everything goes according to plan, then it will be fit again.”
In the three previous test games of the season preparation, Havertz had stood in the starting eleven. Against Villarreal, newcomer Victor Gyökeres now got his chance from the start, but remained without direct participation.