After completing his move from Leverkusen to London this summer, Kai Havertz has big ambitions on both the domestic and international stage, as he has been discussing this week...
Since the post-lockdown restart of competitive football, Havertz has played a total of 17 times for Bayer Leverkusen, Chelsea and the German national team, scoring 11 goals and, since his switch to Stamford Bridge, claiming four assists.
The most recent of those came in Germany’s 3-3 draw with Turkey this week, the first an incisive defence-splitting pass played forward from a pocket of space on the right and the second a dazzling piece of quick footwork on the edge of the box.
The latter was reminiscent of the 21-year-old’s neat interplay with Callum Hudson-Odoi that aided our recent comeback at West Brom, while Havertz’s other Chelsea assist in the Carabao Cup against Barnsley was the result of enthusiastic defending from the front as his sliding tackle fell for Ross Barkley to make it 3-0.
It is this repertoire of making and taking chances in front of goal that mean the youngster is such an exciting addition to Frank Lampard’s evolving squad and will surely see him cement a regular place in Joachim Low’s Germany team over the coming months. His start against Turkey was just his eighth appearance at senior level but he has high hopes of quickly adding to that tally.
‘I travelled to my old home in Cologne full of anticipation for the games,’ he said. ‘In my two years with the national team, I haven't played too many games but I'm still relatively young.
‘I have a lot of games ahead of me which is why so far I've always remained calm. I have enough self-confidence to attack the national team.’
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