Was the Tottenham game the best Viktor Gyokeres performance?

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·23 February 2026

Was the Tottenham game the best Viktor Gyokeres performance?

As someone who believes the smallest of details can separate success and failure, how crucial is it that with 10 Premier League fixtures left for Arsenal this season, Viktor Gyokeres had his best display easily as a Gunner on Sunday? If it wasn’t Eze’s, that’s only because he got a hat trick in the NLD at the Emirates.

Not only were these Eze’s first league goals since he last played Spurs, but he hasn’t had a shot on target since. Not that the midfielder seems to ever lack self-belief.

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Gyokeres has not always seemed as confident, struggling with the realisation he’s not going to dominate the English top division like he did the Portuguese.

Defending Gyokeres

Many Gooners have defended the striker, pointing out that it’s not like he’s been missing lots of chances every week. In fact, there have been games where the Swede has not even managed a shot on target. Those who have played the position will tell you that you know something isn’t working the moment you’re not having opportunities to score.

That’s why even more reassuring than his brace yesterday was the stat that the 27-year-old had more touches than in any game since leaving Sporting Lisbon.

His peers could go direct, and the forward was holding the ball up, winning flick-ons, forcing errors, defending from the front, taking the ball into channels, etc.

It was the first consistent 90 minutes where he and his teammates were consistently on the same page.

That this happened when the pressure was at an all-time high is even more reassuring.

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Gyokeres Experience

A two-time winner of the Primeira Liga, Gyokeres is one of the few in our squad who know how to get over the line in a title race.

There are some in our fanbase who have doubted why we signed him or Eze, so don’t underestimate the mentality they showed at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

I remember when Robert Pires got injured in 2002, so Freddie Ljungberg took the baton and ran with it for the final spring of the campaign.

Let’s hope his countrymen and Eze will do the same.

Dan Smith

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