What to remember from Viktor Gyökeres' first official in the Arsenal jersey? A priori, not much, and the player himself will surely want to switch on the reception of Leeds next Saturday at the Emirates Stadium. We will not venture to write definitive things on very temporary situations, but the Swedish striker lived a painful first at the theater of dreams despite the success of his family (0-1), unable to take off.
It must be said that Matthijs de Ligt and Leny Yoro also led him hard by giving him a duel at all times, kick -off until his release in play at the time of play. By replacing him at the same time as Martinelli, Arteta also rendered him service, aware that he had surely not yet 90 minutes in the Guiboles, in any case not 90 minutes of first League. But the Spaniard wanted to be optimistic after the match: Gyökeres did a lot of very good things, I'm happy. We feel on our high pressing and in the rhythm that we impose, that there are still points to improve. But coming to Manchester United and winning a victory in the first game is a very good start He said.
A first disappointing but there will be others
Inevitably, we did not expect to see a participative 9 landing in the way of a Karim Benzema, but with the exception of Manchester United fans, certainly would certainly have liked to see the Swedish in his natural habitat, the penalty area, where he is promised to do the most bad. But even in this area, Gyökeres was not served. The 26-year-old center-forward was missing, and he often had to be satisfied with balloons that are difficult to negotiate. The territorial domination of Manchester United also did not help, it must be said, while his team struggled to come out properly the ball.
If he has shown will to flourish in the pressings in the first period on Bayindir or Maguire, Gyökeres finally emerged from this meeting with a fairly poor stats card: 0 goal, barely he had the opportunity to shoot (0 shooting in 60 minutes), 0 dribble, 21 touched balloons, 44% of successful pass rates, and 3 duels won out of 13. Standards of the best first league scorers, but Gyökeres will have the opportunity to buy a driving next weekend. To show that he deserves his napkin circle well at this table.
