What to expect from Viktor Gyokeres at Arsenal: Will Gunners’ new attacker live up to hype in Premier League?

So, can Viktor Gyokeres live up to the hype? The Center Forward Arsenal supporters arrived for years last week, and every indication, because it became clear that he was Mikel Arteta’s husband, is that the Swede is determined not to be crushed under the weight of expectations.

And that is certainly enough. Helped by free printing in the physical and online stores of the club, is the No.14 shirt from Gyokeres, a phone call back to club recorder Thierry Henry, the best-selling in the history of Arsenal. The National Stadium of Singapore roared of joy of seeing him in one of those sweaters for a pre-season-friendly against Newcastle United.

When the first appearance comes on Thursday, when Arsenal is opposed to Tottenham in a pre-season in the Kai Tak Sports Park of Hong Kong (live on CBS Sports Golazo Network), then the hype promises to be stratosferic. It is all that Arteta can do to cool the jets in the Far East, warning that his new signing “today did the session alone and very little yesterday”. Whether the first game is on your hands added the Arsenal boss: “We’re going to judge tonight what he is like. If the medical staff is satisfied with his disorders, it is possible.”

Arsenal supporters believe they have the man whose goals can dismiss them to a first Premier League title in 22 years, perhaps a first European Cup ever. It is easy to see why. Even in the notorious Spits-friendly climates of the Primeira Liga, Gyokees shots and goals delivered at a speed that is not seen for a generation. In 102 games with sport, the Swede delivered 97 goals, 28 assists, 3.7 shots per 90 minutes and, especially of both titles. Since Mario Jardel did not score more in 2001-02 than the 39 Gyokeres delivered last season.

On the other hand, as a potential debut looms up, his names like Jardel are not the kind of filling supporters with faith. Between 1996 and 2003 (minus for a year to amaze to Turkey), the Brazilian was one of the most coveted attackers in Europe, no wonder when he was on average more than a goal in competition game. When he finally came to England, on average exactly zero goals per Premier League match for Bolton Wanderers. Carlos Vinicius, Fabio Silva, Darwin Nunez: Portugal does not want expensive attackers who do not get the figure in England. No wonder considering that, according to Club Elo Reviews, the worst teams in the Portuguese top flight are about the same level as the best of the EFL’s League One.

Arsenal is convinced that Gyokees will not be any other addition to the annals of flops from the Western corners of Europe. The Swede knows the English game from his time at Coventry, has the physicality to adapt to the competition and is completely fearless on the way to what he knows will be the movement to define his career. The dealers of the Gunners were supposed to be impressed by the urgency with which Gyokers Drongen to come to Noord -London, sacrificing committees by his agent to make stormy negotiations with sport and his own desire for “revenge” after he had failed to have reached the rank with Brighton.

No less encouraging was how Gyokeres did it in the Champions League. The sample size is indeed small, but the 27-year-old terrorized Manchester City on the way to a hat trick, half of the six goals he has managed in the competition phase. As is also the case with his Portuguese output, the figures do not look so rosy when you deduct the penalties (two in Europe last season), but it is still clear that Gyokees had a big impact on some of Europe’s best defenders, including one of his new teammates.

“It’s scary to play against him,” said William Saliba about the Swede, who gave him a lot of headaches, even in Arsenal’s emphatic victory in Lisbon last November. “If you are confronted with a striker who scores goals, you must be focused! But now he is in our team and he will score for us, so that’s good.”

If Arsenal had not had Saliba and Gabriel in their backline that day, they would indeed have done very well to keep Gyokeres aimless, so the then sporting striker was ruthless when the balls are pursued through the channel. Arteta’s side was willing to leave almost half of the field between their last outfield player and the goal; The eyes of Gyokeres raised with the prospect. These were the routes to his trademark goal, bursting into the room on the counterattack, drove to the defender and broke a shot home, as he does against Boavista in the passage of the game below.

This is one of those goals that Rio Ferdinand described on his podcast when he said the following. “I probably looked at him three times really, very closely. And three times I am gone:” He doesn’t get that chance in the premium. ” Is there enough – after he is physically coordinated – to give him a goal? “

Whether Gyokees has extra something to overcome Premier League defenses is not yet clear. What is, based on the last three years, is that opportunities that disappear above will be rare when it is in his new colors. Teams did not defend themselves against Arsenal as Arsenal defended against sport. They will fill the box and leave men in possession, everything to limit the transition threat of Bukayo Saka and Martin Odegaard.

Gyokees will have to adapt to be a striker who puts the finishing touch on long spells of possession, but it is not as if Arsenal needs him to become that immediately. Despite all that hype about a new center, it is worth mentioning that there is currently one in the books with whom Arsenal is performing very well. In the two seasons since he arrived from Chelsea, Kai Havertz has yielded 27 goals and 11 assists in Premier League and Champions League game, the second target involvement of everyone in the team behind Saka. Despite all the hype surrounding the new man, it seems pre -eminently plausible that it will be Overtz that leads the line on the opening day.

After all, for all Hype around Gyokeres, a deal with an initial $ 74 million with a further $ 11.5 million in potential add-ons in 2025 is not exactly superstar money. Arsenal had entered the summer, knowing that if they would not get their primary target Alexander Isak, they would supplement forwards that Havertz could supplement instead of Utterly Uitterly use him.

Arteta has another option in the attack, a whose ruthless striving for shots and goals is a clear contrast with the other central forward options in the team. The new man is not going to change Arsenal’s attack, but instead complete it. Compliance with the hype can then be an unreasonable measure of assessing Gyokeres.

Arsenal vs. Tottenham View information

• Date: Thursday, July 31 | Time: 7:30 am and
• Location: – – I’ll be there – I’ll be there –
• Live stream: Golazo Network
• Chances: Arsenal -182; Drawing +320; Tottenham +380