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Arsenal’s Gyökeres ends drought, credit ‘objectives’ in Henry’s 14

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Viktor Gyökeres mentioned he believes “there are a number of objectives” in Arsenal‘s well-known quantity 14 shirt after ending his drought in Tuesday’s 4-0 thrashing of Atlético Madrid.

The Gunners scored 4 occasions in 14 second-half minutes as Diego Simeone’s aspect had been blown away at Emirates Stadium.

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Gabriel Magalhães opened the scoring on 57 minutes earlier than Gabriel Martinelli doubled their benefit with an outstanding end and Gyökeres ended his nine-game drought for membership and nation with a quickfire brace.

And Gyökeres, who took the shirt made well-known by all-time membership report scorer Thierry Henry after finishing a €73 million summer time transfer from Sporting CP, advised CBS, the place Henry was working as an analyst: “It feels nice, to be trustworthy. There’s a number of objectives on this shirt. It feels wonderful.

“To be trustworthy, there weren’t many shirt numbers accessible however when 14 was accessible, it was an enormous honour.

“We need to win trophies, that is our need and that is a very powerful factor and naturally I need to contribute and rating objectives.

“To attain 4 and preserve a clear sheet once more is superb. We all the time preserve going. We do the issues proper after we defend and after we get the probabilities we’re extraordinarily sturdy in taking these.

“Each my objectives had been nice. I attempt to do my greatest on a regular basis and work arduous, contribute with completely different stuff and the objectives would have come ultimately.”

Arsenal stored one other clear sheet to increase their gorgeous defensive report this season – conceding simply three objectives in all competitions — however Gunners boss Mikel Arteta mentioned he thinks his aspect is extra dynamic with Gyökeres within the lineup after working riot towards Atlético.

“I feel we have develop into far more unpredictable,” he mentioned. “He is so bodily, open, his face is for everyone. The way in which he presses the ball, holds the ball, that is phenomenal.

“After which there’s the icing on the cake and the largest factor that we’ll debate about him is objectives. He is scored two very completely different ones at this time, and hopefully he begins to get some momentum and a very good run of objectives.”