Player Ratings: Bournemouth 0-4 Arsenal - Kai Havertz scores for rampant Gunners

Arsenal routed Bournemouth 4-0 to move to second place - find out who impressed with our Player Ratings



Player Ratings: Bournemouth 0-4 Arsenal - Kai Havertz scores for rampant Gunners

Arsenal's tremendous travelling support at Bournemouth. CREDIT @laythy29


Kai Havertz scored his first competive goal for Arsenal with a penalty as they emphatically routed Bournemouth on Saturday. 

The Gunners went's ahead through Bukayo Saka, prior to Martin Odegaard's spot-kick after Eddier Nketiah was felled in the box before half time.

After the inteval a second penalty was awarded when the Gunners captain was fouled in the box - with Havertz sucessfully scoring the spot-kick, as teammates and the travelling fans celebrated joyously. 

There was still time for Ben White to make it 4-0 late on as Arsenal showed their class on the south coast. 

Read on to find out who impressed with our Player Ratings

GK: David Raya - 5/10 - Lost possesion four times when kicking out. Nothing to suggest the Brentford loanee being an upgrade on Aaron Ramsdale when it comes to his distribution on anything we've seen so far. 

RB: Ben White - 8/10 - Good to see the talented defender find the time to score late on to cap an impressie performance 

CB: William Saliba - 8/10 - One superb block in the first half to underline another excellent showing from the world class centre-back

CB: Gabriel Magalhaes - 7.5/10 - Solid 

LB: Oleksandr Zinchenko - 8.5/10 - Outstanding from start to finish, offensively and defensively, in the backline and in midfield 

DM: Declan Rice - 9/10 - We knew the former West Ham midfielder was a good player, but judging him on his performances so far in red and white the England international is simply World Class 

CM: Martin Odegaard - 9/10 - What joy to watch the Gunners captain on the ball. Yet he works so hard out of possesion. Colly slotted home his penalty to help the Gunners on their way to victory 

CM: Kai Havertz - 8/10 - Wonderful to see such a talented player score his first competitve goal for Arsenal - and how satisfying was it to see the celebrations and bond between the player, his teammates and the travelling fans after his spot-kick

RW: Bukayo Saka - 8/10 - Scored to set the Gunners on their way, but worrying to see the 22-year-old limp off in the second half

ST: Eddie Nketiah - 7/10 - Won the first penalty and worked so hard as he always does. But if Arsenal have designs on winning the title Eddie has to start scoring - and regularly 

LW: Gabriel Jesus - 7/10 - A lively performance but another striker who needs to score goals 

Substitutes

SUB: Reiss Nelson (69' for Nketiah) - 5/10

SUB: Takehiro Tomiyasu (69' for Zinchenko) - 5/10

SUB: Fabio Vieira (76' for Saka) - 5.5/10

SUB: Emile Smith-Rowe (80' for Havertz) - 5/10

SUB: Jorginho (80' for Rice) - 5/10


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