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Chelsea's £90m target Kai Havertz was influential on his return to competitive action for Bayer Leverkusen against Rangers... but his lack of a clinical edge shows he is far from the finished product

For his first competitive appearance in four weeks, star attacker Kai Havertz certainly made an impression for Bayer Leverkusen against Rangers. Whether you take a positive or negative slant on his display though, probably depends on your allegiance.

On an evening where the Germans strode comfortably into the Europa League quarter-finals, via Moussa Diaby's solitary second-half strike, the Chelsea target was heavily involved in every notable opportunity in the first-half, operating in a broadly free role on the right.

All that was missing, significantly, was the finishing touch. An ambitious whistling volley caught the woodwork early on, yet two one-on-one situations either side of half-time failed to result in a goal: one skewed wide, one straight at Gers keeper Allan McGregor.