With seven goals in his last seven home games, Kai Havertz's recent scoring run has seen him move to the brink of club history.
The German has netted in all of our home matches this term so far, and when you add that to his final-day strike against Everton back in May, he has got on the scoresheet in each of our last seven outings at Emirates Stadium.
As well as the Toffees, Wolves, Brighton, Bolton, Leicester, PSG and Southampton have all suffered at the hands of our red-hot hitman this term, making Kai just the second player to score in each of our first six home games in a season after Doug Lishman in 1954/55.
Now Kai has his eye on a spot in our record books. Only three players in our history have ever scored in eight straight home matches for us, and should Kai hit the back of the net on his next appearance in north London, he’ll join an exclusive club.
It’s perhaps no surprise that our record scorer Thierry Henry is one player Kai could match, whose streak happened in 2000. You have to go back nearly half a century to when it had previously happened when Lishman achieved the feat back in 1954, while Jimmy Brain was the first to reach eight in a row back in 1927.
All those players played their home games at Highbury, meaning Kai could become the first player in Emirates Stadium history to reach the milestone.
| Start of Run | End of Run | Player | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02/03/2000 | 26/08/2000 | Thierry Henry | 8 |
| 24/04/1954 | 13/11/1954 | Doug Lishman | 8 |
| 15/04/1927 | 15/10/1927 | Jimmy Brain | 8 |
| 19/05/2024 | Ongoing | Kai Havertz | 7 |
| 31/12/2011 | 12/03/2012 | Robin van Persie | 7 |
| 16/10/2001 | 09/12/2001 | Thierry Henry | 7 |
| 22/11/1952 | 18/02/1953 | Doug Lishman | 7 |
| 26/09/1936 | 25/12/1936 | Ted Drake | 7 |
As for Premier League matches, Kai is just two short of catching Henry who holds the record for scoring in the most successive home matches for us in the competition, starting at the end of our Invincibles campaign in 2004.
| Start of Run | End of Run | Player | Games |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15/05/2004 | 30/10/2004 | Thierry Henry | 7 |
| 19/03/2000 | 26/08/2000 | Thierry Henry | 6 |
| 19/05/2024 | Ongoing | Kai Havertz | 5 |
| 21/04/2019 | 22/09/2019 | Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang | 5 |
| 01/01/2019 | 27/02/2019 | Alexandre Lacazette | 5 |
| 31/12/2011 | 12/03/2012 | Robin van Persie | 5 |
| 22/12/2007 | 11/02/2008 | Emmanuel Adebayor | 5 |
| 26/12/2003 | 28/02/2004 | Thierry Henry | 5 |
| 16/08/2003 | 18/10/2003 | Thierry Henry | 5 |
| 06/11/1993 | 29/12/1993 | Ian Wright | 5 |
Having scored on his last four appearances in our colours, Kai is enjoying one of the best purple patches of his career. His previous best run of form in home and away matches came when he scored in six in a row for Bayer Leverkusen in 2019, while his six goals in his opening 10 games is his best-ever start to a season.
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