Arsenal's Viktor Gyokeres criticised by Swedish media for "dull" Romania display in 2-1 Nations League win

No other information was needed for Viktor Gyokeres to execute for Sweden against Romania successful Friday's UEFA Nations League clash, aft the Arsenal striker was handed a imaginable way backmost into Mikel Arteta's starting XI.

Playing 2nd fiddle to Kai Havertz frankincense acold successful the 2026-27 season, Gyokeres could instrumentality to home enactment arsenic Arteta's first-choice centre-forward, pursuing Havertz's hamstring injury.

The Gunners are hopeful that the German has avoided a superior issue, but Gyokeres is present successful premier presumption to pb the enactment against Leeds United and Lille successful Arsenal's archetypal 2 games back.

Despite his deficiency of starts astatine nine level truthful acold this term, Gyokeres inevitably partnered Alexander Isak up apical successful Sweden's 2-1 win, and repaid Graham Potter's religion with the important extremity connected the changeable of fractional time.

Following Isak's opener and Dennis Man's equaliser, Lucas Bergvall's long-range effort was parried into Gyokeres's path, and the striker's scuffed effort deed the crushed and ended up successful the backmost of the nett contempt Radu Dragusin's champion efforts.

What did the Swedish media accidental astir Viktor Gyokeres's performance?

Despite netting the decisive goal, Gyokeres's show was acold from vintage, arsenic the 28-year-old had nary different shots successful the lucifer and failed with some of his dribble attempts earlier his 76th-minute substitution.

TVMatchen gave Gyokeres a 6/10 rating, admitting that his show was "a spot dull" amid his deficiency of starts for Arsenal, but hailing him for taking his accidental similar the 'striker helium is'.

SvenskaFans were besides measured successful their investigation of the Arsenal man, who 'failed to get into the game' but was an effectual 'target man' successful the League B Group 4 contest.

FotbollSkanalen labelled Gyokeres "eager to play", but besides highlighted his deficiency of effectiveness successful duels and his 'unfriendly' quality with the shot astatine his feet.

SVT Sport cut a somewhat much affirmative rotation connected Gyokeres's display, claiming that the 28-year-old 'did arsenic helium usually does' for Sweden, aft making it 22 goals successful 38 caps for the nationalist team.

What adjacent for Sweden and Viktor Gyokeres?

Thanks to Sweden's 2-1 occurrence implicit Romania and Poland's 0-0 gully with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Potter's men already beryllium astatine the apical of League B Group 4, putting them successful rod presumption for promotion to League A.

The Scandinavian outfit are adjacent successful enactment astatine location to Poland connected Monday, erstwhile Gyokeres is expected to reprise his concern with Liverpool's Isak successful Potter's 4-4-2 shape.

The Arsenal attacker is the starring goalscorer successful the existent Sweden squad, having netted 3 much than Isak's 19, and helium is conscionable 5 strikes distant from breaking into the database of Sweden's apical 10 antheral scorers of each time.