Kai Havertz nods Arsenal past Burnley in 1-0 Now Tv win

Arsenal edged Burnley 1-0 on now tv, and Kai Havertz supplied the only goal with a header from Bukayo Saka’s corner after 35 minutes. The result left Mikel Arteta’s side two games from either the club’s greatest season or a collapse on a hideous scale.

Saka’s corner, Havertz’s header

The decisive move came at 35 minutes, when Saka sent in the corner and Havertz nodded Arsenal ahead. That was enough to decide a match that had already started to lean on dead-ball detail rather than open play.

Arsenal had only one shot on target after about 30 minutes, so the first goal arrived just as tension was beginning to rise inside the Emirates. Leandro Trossard also hit the foot of the post, which kept Burnley within a single moment of an equaliser and left Arsenal leaning on the one chance they finished.

Jover and Arsenal’s set pieces

“The best way out of a corner? A corner, it turns out.” That line fit the match because Nicolas Jover’s set-piece work again produced the decisive chance, and the set-piece coach’s role was visible in the way Arsenal kept pushing for a dead-ball opening when the game needed one.

“Whatever Nicolas Jover is being paid, it’s not enough” also captures the night’s narrow margin. Arsenal were not flowing freely, and Cristhian Mosquera starting at right-back added to a functional, make-do feel rather than a polished attacking display.

Two games from the edge

“There were only ever two things that could happen here for Arsenal. Disaster and non-disaster.” That was the frame before the goal, and it still is after it, because the win preserved the title chase without settling it.

Havertz started at centre-forward and did the job that mattered most, while Martin Ødegaard remained part of a side that now has no cushion for error. Two games left is a brutal place to be, but Arsenal at least still control the next act instead of watching the season slip away on one wasted afternoon.