Arsenal ‘hungry’ for Aston Villa revenge after Wolves win

Kai Havertz has spoken of his want for Arsenal to realize revenge on Aston Villa after opening his account within the Gunners’ 2-0 residence win over Wolves to start out their 2024-25 Premier League season.

Germany ahead Havertz headed the Twenty fifth-minute opener to place his facet on target for 3 factors which have been sealed when Bukayo Saka fired in 16 minutes from time.

Arsenal’s seventh successive win over Wolves was a far happier event for the hosts than their 2-0 defeat to Villa at Emirates Stadium on April 14, which severely broken their failed try to catch Manchester Metropolis finally season’s summit.

Villa, who completed fourth and can be part of Arsenal on this season’s Uefa Champions League, are their opponents of their first away sport of the marketing campaign on August 24 (5.30pm BST).

A giant sport awaits subsequent week pic.twitter.com/Wa4g4i7vz1

— Arsenal (@Arsenal) August 17, 2024

Aston Villa vs Arsenal

“We’re going to be hungry to win this sport, particularly after final season,” stated Havertz. “We’re going to do all the pieces to win it.

“We have been, typically, pleased with pre-season, and we particularly performed effectively within the final two video games [home wins over Bayer Leverkusen and Lyon]. That prepares you fairly effectively for the Premier League.”

Villa additionally kicked off the season with a win in London, beating West Ham 2-1 on the London Stadium by means of objectives from Amadou Onana and Jhon Duran.

They initially defeated Arsenal 1-0 final December to finish a run of 4 defeats within the fixture and can now try to cease Havertz from including to a sequence of 10 objectives and 7 assists in 15 league video games.

Again residence in N5 with a win

Take a look at the highlights of in the present day’s 2-0 victory over Wolves pic.twitter.com/MoiWNQVPF9

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Arsenal vs Wolves: Saka objective

Havertz arrange the objective from Saka, who completed with three greater than him as Arsenal’s prime scorer on 16 in 2023-24. “When he will get these balls in these positions, then you understand he’s an enormous menace,” Havertz stated of the England worldwide.

“He can put the ball wherever you need it. The timing of the ball and the run was good, so it was a very good objective.”

The 25-year-old stated Wolves pushed Arsenal, Jorgen Strand Larsen going closest when David Raya saved the Norway attacker’s first-half header.

“That’s how all of us felt after the ultimate whistle,” Havertz mirrored. “There was loads of work, particularly within the second half.

“We defended fairly deep at occasions – so in complete, we’re blissful to not concede a objective and to attain two objectives. It’s a very good outcome for us.”