Arsenal legend David Seaman has praised summer season signing Viktor Gyokeres for getting higher as he’s gone on after two targets in opposition to Atletico Madrid within the Champions League this week.
The Sweden worldwide arrived at Arsenal from Sporting Lisbon this summer season with an enormous fame, having scored a frankly ridiculous 97 targets in 102 video games in his two years in Portugal.
It’s not been fairly as straightforward for Gyokeres at Arsenal to this point, with the 27-year-old managing 5 targets in his first twelve appearances in all competitions.
Nonetheless, Seaman is optimistic about what Gyokeres can obtain, with the previous Gunners goalkeeper anticipating him to attain quite a lot of targets if he carries on performing as he has.
Viktor Gyokeres backed by Arsenal legend David Seaman
Seaman has been impressed by Gyokeres even when he hasn’t been scoring, praising his work fee and physicality.
Chatting with talkSPORT, as quoted by the Metro, Seaman stated: “He’s getting used to the staff, he’s getting used to his team-mates and he’s getting used to the tempo of the Premier League.
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“That’s one thing that quite a lot of gamers, particularly the overseas guys, after they first come, they discover it actually tough to get used to the tempo and the physicality.
“As we’ve seen, Gyokeres loves a little bit of bodily motion in there so give him time.
“He’s getting higher and higher, he’s getting fitter and fitter and I’m positive there’s going to be extra targets.”
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It was maybe at all times a bit unlikely that Gyokeres would hit the bottom operating immediately after his huge transfer in the summertime.
Even lots of the greatest gamers have initially been gradual to settle after shifting to a brand new league, and the English prime flight is actually an enormous step up from the Portuguese league.
Gyokeres nonetheless has a good return to this point and it might be that his brace in opposition to Atletico shall be simply what he wanted to present him extra confidence to go on and get much more targets.