Arsenal complete perfect Champions League league phase with Kairat winArsenal’s Champions League campaign continues to gather momentum, not through drama or desperation, but through quiet authority. Victory over Kairat Almaty sealed a flawless league phase, eight wins from eight, and confirmed Mikel Arteta’s side as one of the competition’s early standard bearers. Havertz return shapes early dominanceArsenal needed just two minutes to strike. Kairat, bottom of the league phase with only one point, levelled just three minutes later when Jorginho scored from the penalty spot after Riccardo Calafiori was judged to have pulled him back. Arsenal finish top of the league phase and become only the second English side to win eight or more consecutive Champions League games, after Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City.