Arsenal has just lost to Villarreal 2-3 right at Emirates. It was the match that coach Mikel Arteta launched the “blockbuster” Viktor Gyokeres from the beginning, but he played very faintly.
That is the question that former player Paul Scholes made at the live cabin comment between Arsenal and rival Villarreal. According to the former MU player, coach Mikel Arteta has not found a way to promote the ability of the blockbuster “Viktor Gyokeres. That is why for more than 60 minutes on the Emirates Stadium, Swedish rookie only “carrying a car”, before being drawn to replace it with Martin Odegaard.
Viktor Gyokeres lost on the pitch, for the first time kicked for Arsenal. The statistics of the Swedish striker are extremely disappointed. This 64 million euro contract has only 14 touching the ball and launched 2 shots, of which only one ball hit the goal but was blocked by the goalkeeper of Villarreal. The new star moved from the Sporting Lisbon Club is completely isolated with his teammates in the back.
In the match against Villarreal, coach Mikel Arteta ranked Viktor Gyokeres the highest kick on the 3-person striker, in the squad arranged according to his familiar 4-3-3 diagram. Along with the “top scorer” of the Portuguese league last season, Bukayo Saka (right) and Gabriel Martinelli (left -left deviation). This is an almost optimal attack for the London capital team. In particular, Gyokeres is placed a lot of expectations, after a few minutes of impressing in the previous friendly match against Tottenham.
Also according to Paul Scholes analysis, Viktor Gyokeres was unable to catch up with Arsenal's play. “Last season, Sporting Lisbon mainly kicked the counterattack.
Viktor Gyokeres has encountered many difficulties before the active gameplay of the Villarreal players, resulting in no less than 3 times lost the ball. This shows the limitations of the Swedish rookie in very narrow scope handling situations. “It is possible that this weakness has made Gyokeres unchanged in the English Premier League, leading to a detour to Portugal for Sporting Lisbon, then returning to the Premier League with Arsenal,” former midfielder Paul Scholes said.
A minus point could not help but mention in Viktor Gyokeres in the 2-3 defeat of the home team against Villarreal as the ability to pass the ball. At home, Arsenal's “blockbuster” on the ball is quite complicated and the gizzard. He only made only 7 passes, including 4 times the ball went to the right address. This means that Gyokeres's successful pass rate is only 57% – the worst statistic for the players named in the Gunners's starting lineup in the match against the team from Spain.
Obviously, despite buying the “bombing king” of the Portuguese league last season, Arsenal still did not solve their old problems. If continuing to show as in the match against Villarreal, it is not known that the Swedish player will follow Nicolas Pepe's trace – becoming the “bomb” of the Gunners. There is a very interesting detail in Arsenal's 2-3 defeat against Villarreal. It was the fact that they lost their first goal by Pepe – the star who was bought by Arsenal from Lille Club with a record transfer fee of 72 million pounds in 2019, but could not find a place in the Emirates.
