Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\nGyokeres has already bagged some huge goals for Arsenal this season. His last in the Premier League, breaking the deadlock against Everton to grab a vital three points.<\/p>\n
He scored twice against Tottenham in the North London Derby, scored the winning goal from the spot at Everton, and was critical in the first leg League Cup semi-final against Chelsea. He has six goals in his last eight league games, and now the run-in will demand more.<\/p>\n
He has lacked confidence, and even Mikel Arteta pointed to a lack of pre-season for his slower start to life in North London. “We have to put him (Gyokeres) in the best possible condition to explode and fulfil his potential,\u201d he said speaking in December.<\/p>\n
“Before the injury, he was in a great place. It took him a while at the beginning because it’s a different league with different demands.<\/p>\n
“He had no pre-season, and now he’s starting to get some momentum, but the thing that’s going to unlock him is goals. He needs that for himself, for his confidence, and we’re going to judge his performances based on that as well. That’s logical, but he wants it so badly as well.”<\/p>\n
With this recent boost in form, Arteta will be hoping to translate that domestically. The next three games all take place across the remaining three competitions the Gunners are involved in.<\/p>\n
An FA Cup quarter-final clash at Southampton before travelling to Lisbon to play Sporting CP in their first leg UEFA Champions League quarter-final. Then, finally, returning to the Emirates at the weekend to host Bournemouth and aim to widen the gap to Manchester City to 12 points before they face Chelsea the following day at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Viktor Gyokeres scored four times for Sweden over the international break which comes at the perfect time for Arsenal Viktor Gy\u00f6keres of Sweden celebrates after scoring goal during the FIFA World Cup 2026 European Qualifiers KO play-offs match against Poland (Image: Sebastian Frej\/Getty Images) Arsenal signed Viktor Gyokeres to score big goals in big moments, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}