VIKTOR GYOKERES: How did the new Arsenal striker made his first start against Villarreal among the projection of Max Dowman’s Star? | Football news

There was a Ruggito from Hage before the kick -off. Arsenal has a new striker, a new n. 14 – A center forward that the world of football has asked Mikel Arte to sign for years.

Eat full -time, n. 14 that we are talking about was the number of touches that the Gyker managed at his first beginning of the Arsenal, rather than the aura of the Swedish striker who followed the footsteps of Thierry Henry and his iconic number of shirt.

The 27th anniversary was given an hour by Arte in 3-2 on Wednesday Defat in Villarreal and was a peaceful start north of London. In his short touches on the ball, Gyokker has managed two shots. One blocked, one saved.

It was slightly disappointing, with minor anti -limx. But Artata saw promising signs.

“It was only a week or down with us,” said the Arsenal manager after the game. “But I have already seen many things and many purposes, especially the way he was attacking in certain spaces.”

The Gykers attacked the box unlike any center of the Arsenal forward in the current era. It took the Swedish just 30 seconds to get away in the left channel, take the ball in the box and cross. There was an unwanted tap-in offer.

Arsenal has a center forward in Kai Haverz who tends to move to the right channel to connect with Martin Odegaard and Bukayo Saka. The Gunners must have a different option in the Gykers for a different side.

There are a moment in the first half, when the Gykers raised two defenders and made B. Butody was questioned again, Butody was there.

It brings us Nicey to the next key feature of Gyokker’s game: being inside the width of the posts.

In the past, Arsenal has had options such as Havertz and Gabriel Jesus and come to the ball, and while there was a bit of this with the Gyker, his desire to stay on the last line and wait for the possibilities in the box it was clear.

Saka managed to beat his opposite man in two or three occasions in the first half, with the Gyker in a close position to collect any waste. He almost took one in the opening period, but instead he made the ball in Christian Norgaard on the stretch.

The moment came Hist in the second half. Gyokker was played to the right of the box and had a narrow corner, but still forced a solid rescue from goalkeeper Villarreal Luiz Junior.

It was an attack in the middle of the field: Arsenal ranked 20th among all the Premier League teams in those statistics last season. It was also for the curved race behind – installing a connection attack to which Havertz is used to – who opened a stubborn defense.

He ended up being the last action of Gyokers’ game, replaced with him at the time. It is clear that the Swedish striker has still presented physical form to recover.

“I think it was very important for him to start a mat and start having the feeling and link with the team,” said Arte.

“His level of fitness, I think he didn’t really train with a team for two months, so now he has finished five or six sessions, I think, before today. So in conditions on Saturday.”

Arsenal in the next 10 days is to prepare their new striker for the open of the Premier League Agaless Manchester United, in life Sky Sports. “I hope the days,” Arte said how long it will take to step.

Gyokker still has some obstacles to cross. His first 90 minutes, but also a first game with Martin Odegaard behind Hym.

“Every day in training, I think he is really receiving a good feeling,” added Arte. “I think he has built connections and outsideside (The Pitch), which I think is really important for players who will help him to be in the position he needs to enter.”

And will it be ready for the trip to Old Trafford? “I think mentally and understanding what it has to do, it will be 100 % or more,” added the head of the Arsenal. “Because it is so arranged and so sure that it can immediately deliver.

“I have no doubts that it will really be in one place.”

And how about Max Dowman?

Next to Gyokeres there was the impressive Max Dowman, who once again consolidated as one of the most talented teenagers of the game.

Just like against Newcastle in Singapore, the 15 years old came out of the bench and showed the fear of a player twice his age. Just like against Newcastle, it was a superb solo race to be too many for the defenders of Villarreal, who had to break it down for a penalty.

Dowman’s industrial race was embodied by the stamatic that has tried four times more dribbling of Saka against Villarreal, only one third of the time.

“I continued to print, without a doubt. The impact he had today in the game, the efficiency he shows in events attacks and actions, is incredible,” said Arte.

“Once again, I abandoned the possibilities, and if I continue like this, let’s see what happens.”

Dowman is becoming a phenomenon for the English public, but for his Arsenal teammates, it is not new. Also last season, the then 14 years was training with the first art of Arte, but it was not allowed to play in the Premier League or in the Champions League due to the rules of age.

“It was so fast with Max,” added Arte. “Even last year, when he trained with us, he was doing this kind of things in training and is now doing it in play in a coherent way.

“So the three or four games he played, he managed to have an impact and has great moments in the game. Fantastic.”

Many believe that Dowman’s competitive debut will send this age, at the same age when Ethan Nwaneri has made his profession to play in the Premier League.

But as far as we expect Dowman to present himself at Old Trafford and the show continues, Arte has put a pin in that idea. First of all, Nwaneri spent two seasons with the U21 before becoming a first one at the first regularly. But for Dowman, I need before a small break.

“Let’s see how it goes,” said Arte for the minutes of the first team. “We also go on Saturday, on pause. It needs a small break a scholause that has not really had holidays.

“He will have a break, which I think he needs. And then, after the week, he will be ready to go again.”

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