{"id":37821,"date":"2025-09-22T07:11:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/arteta-defends-gyokeres-elite-carragher-questions-arsenals-striker\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T11:11:04","slug":"arteta-defends-gyokeres-elite-carragher-questions-arsenals-striker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/arteta-defends-gyokeres-elite-carragher-questions-arsenals-striker\/","title":{"rendered":"Arteta Defends Gy\u00f6keres: Elite? Carragher Questions Arsenal&#8217;s Striker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Arteta Defends Gy\u00f6keres After Draw with Manchester City<\/h2>\n\nArsenal manager Mikel Arteta came to the defense of Viktor Gy\u00f6keres after the striker failed to score in the recent 1-1 draw against Manchester City.\n\nGy\u00f6keres, a \u00a355 million signing, had a discreet participation in the match, with only 22 touches. The Swedish striker failed to make any shots on goal, repeating similar performances in the matches against Manchester United and Liverpool.\n\nArteta highlighted that Gy\u00f6keres was close to scoring on several occasions and that the team must provide him with more opportunities.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>There were many situations where the opportunities were there and the final pass was missing.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Mikel Arteta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nArteta&#8217;s statements came after Jamie Carragher, former Liverpool defender, questioned whether Gy\u00f6keres is truly an elite player, suggesting he hasn&#8217;t performed at his best in important matches.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0922%2Fr1549318_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Viktor Gy\u00f6keres\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Viktor Gy\u00f6keres ha marcado tres goles en cinco partidos de la Premier League con el Arsenal, pero ninguno contra rivales del top 6.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nCarragher also commented that Arsenal&#8217;s problems lie more in chance creation than in Gy\u00f6keres&#8217; finishing, arguing that not enough clear opportunities have been generated for him.\n\nGy\u00f6keres also failed to score against Athletic Bilbao in the middle of the week, where Gabriel Martinelli came on as a substitute and scored a goal.\n\nMartinelli, who was not a starter against Manchester City, stood out again with a goal in added time. Arteta praised the young winger&#8217;s mentality.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>Gabi is in a very good moment again after the match he had in Bilbao.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Mikel Arteta<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nMartinelli could start in the Carabao Cup third-round match against Port Vale, while Noni Madueke could miss the match after being substituted at halftime against Manchester City.\n\nArteta revealed that Madueke suffered a physical problem and could not continue.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arteta Defends Gy\u00f6keres After Draw with Manchester City Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta came to the defense of Viktor Gy\u00f6keres after the striker failed to score in the recent 1-1 draw against Manchester City. Gy\u00f6keres, a \u00a355 million signing, had a discreet participation in the match, with only 22 touches. The Swedish striker failed to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,1200,1181,2447],"class_list":{"0":"post-37821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-arsenal","8":"tag-manchester-city","9":"tag-mikel-arteta","10":"tag-viktor-gyokeres"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}