04-05-2024 18:25 via theguardian.com

Arsenal find their killer in savvy Kai Havertz’s match-winning instincts | Barney Ronay

At the end of a goalless first half against Bournemouth, the German bought a penalty that tickled at the lines of the lawThis was a Premier League game that posed all kinds of existential questions. If Kai Havertz falls in a crowded penalty area and nobody touches him, but someone does also kind of touch him, is that a penalty?Is simulation still simulation if the thing you’re simulating would have happened anyway because of things like legs, tangles, space, slide, path of run? And most im
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