What's wrong with Kai Havertz and can he fix it in time for Liverpool vs. Arsenal showdown

Arsenal desperately need a decisive finisher at Anfield, but their versatile striker enters Sunday If last season's visit to Anfield taught Arsenal anything, it was the need for a killer in the final third to break the game open. Fail to do so and they are vulnerable to the sort of magic that bamboozled them in August of last year, even if the man who scored that brilliant free-kick winner, Dominik Szoboszlai, is a doubt for Liverpool on Sunday. And if this game is indeed one that will be decided by what Mikel Arteta terms the "moments players," then it could scarcely have come at a worse time for the Arsenal manager.

Bukayo Saka — the Gunners' top shot taker, goal scorer and expected goals compiler — has more than a month left on the sidelines with the thigh injury he suffered in Munich. Noni Madueke could miss the trip with an ankle injury. Christos Tzolis has returned to training but has not played for his new club in more than a month. Max Dowman, the precocious youngster whom Arteta has already entrusted with turning the tide on Merseyside, will serve the first of a three-game ban for his controversial red card. It speaks to the depth at Arteta's disposal that, even if none of the aforementioned quartet play, there