Mikel Arteta has reflected on the form of Viktor Gyokeres.
The striker signed from **Sporting**for £63 million with the expectation that he would help **Arsenal**to make the final step towards major honours this campaign. Questions continued to increase about the scalability of his scoring spree in Portugal to the Premier League, but things are falling into place.
The Swede scored twice as a substitute against Sunderland, netted against Leeds United the week before, and bagged two more goals in the North London derby as **Tottenham**were thrashed 4-1 last Sunday. He has now doubled his tally of league goals to 10, hitting double digits, and the recent record in the new year could be a key contributory factor to trophies for the team by the end of May.
“I think one thing leads to another. When you score the first one, or the performance is good, you have more time with your teammates, you understand the games, opponents, the league better, everything helps. We know [Viktor’s] qualities, he’s undoubtedly an incredible striker. We need to feed into his quality, we need to understand him better, he needs to understand the team and the league better, and I think we are on the right trajectory.
“I know the demands he’s put on himself, the expectations he has to help the team. I’m confident. I ask, a lot of times, our defenders, when they have to train against our players, how do you feel about that? That’s a really good way to understand the quality of a player or how it is to defend them.
“I want the stats to show that with [Viktor] we are the better team and we have achieved what we want. He can be a huge contributor to our success, scoring goals and doing many of the things that he does really well throughout the games.”