National media believe 24-year-old Arsenal star needed to be more selfish yesterday

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One Arsenal player was told he needed to be more selfish following his display for his national team yesterday.

Mikel Arteta and the Arsenal fans will simply be praying that no players pick up a significant knock during this international break.

Both Gabriel Magalhaes and Bukayo Saka have of course withdrawn from their respective countries, injuries that are not feared to mean they miss the Manchester City tie.

Thankfully, caution has been shown in both scenarios, just as Arteta will have wished.

But the Arsenal boss will still be nervously watching all of his players playing friendlies for their countries over the next few days.

Saying that, Mikel Arteta will have enjoyed watching Kai Havertz for Germany yesterday.

Havertz, who had been deployed as a left-back by Julian Nagelsmann previously, returned to a more familiar false nine position in a brilliant 2-0 victory against France last night.

The Arsenal forward played extremely well for his national team yesterday, scoring the side’s second goal.

However, when reviewing the game, German media did spot one area for improvement in Havertz’s overall game.

Arsenal forward Kai Havertz excelled as a false nine for his national team yesterday

One Football in Germany provided a match report on Havertz’s display yesterday.

And although he was praised on the whole, the report felt as if the Arsenal man now needed to be a little more selfish when playing for his national team.

It read: “From left-back to centre forward: This is what Kai Havertz’s positional transformation in the DFB uniform looked like recently.

“As the sole leader, Havertz presented himself less as a classic penalty area striker, but rather moved around the pitch in a swimming manner, appearing practically everywhere and being able to play again and again.

“As a shadow striker, the Arsenal professional evaded his guards several times and made it 2-0 early in the second half.

“At times one would have wished that Havertz would have been a little more stubborn and would have looked for a quicker finish rather than just playing another pass over and over again.

“After 80 minutes it was over for the attacker and Deniz Undav made his DFB debut.”

Kai Havertz scores for Germany against France

Of course, it was still a very positive display for the Arsenal forward playing for his national team.

Although he’s probably happy to play in any position for Nagelsmann, Havertz will surely prefer having the opportunity to show his attacking strength as a striker once again.

It’s certainly a situation that bodes well for Arsenal, and it would be a surprise if Havertz didn’t keep his spot as a false nine against Man City.

All that being said, one promising Arsenal talent did play in an entirely new position out on loan recently.