{"id":499212,"date":"2026-02-23T17:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T17:04:07","slug":"arsenals-viktor-gyokeres-credits-team-meeting-for-tottenham-derby-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/499212\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal’s Viktor Gy\u00f6keres credits team meeting for Tottenham derby triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viktor Gy\u00f6keres<\/a> believes Arsenal’s statement derby win against Tottenham was the “perfect response” to silence the club’s critics.<\/p>\n

Gy\u00f6keres and Eberechi Eze<\/a> both scored twice to secure a 4-1 triumph over Spurs just four days after Arsenal<\/a> were rocked by a 2-2 draw at Wolves.<\/p>\n

The dropped points at Molineux led to questions about Arsenal’s title mentality. However, their performance against Tottenham — which took them five points clear of Manchester City<\/a> at the top of the Premier League<\/a> — went some way to silencing the doubters.<\/p>\n

And Gy\u00f6keres, who extended his league tally to the season for 10, said: “It’s always going to be difficult when you get a result like we had at Wolves, but it’s how you handle that, and how you respond to it, and today we showed that it in a good way.<\/p>\n

“To get this result and this performance, it was the perfect way to respond. So, it’s a good sign. The thing is, that we have to keep showing it in the next game and the game after that. There’s a lot of games to go. But if we perform like this, it’s going to be good, for sure.”<\/p>\n

Mikel Arteta’s title-chasing squad staged a meeting after they surrendered a two-goal lead against bottom-of-the-table Wolves.<\/p>\n

Speaking ahead of Sunday’s north London derby, Declan Rice<\/a> said the players spoke to each other in a “firm” way.<\/p>\n

Viktor Gy\u00f6keres scored twice against Tottenham in the north London derby.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

And reflecting on the summit, Gy\u00f6keres continued: “It’s important sometimes just to say what you feel and to let it all out in the group.<\/p>\n

“Most of us spoke. Everyone can recognise how different people feel in the moment and you get a better understanding of the feeling.<\/p>\n

“When you speak in the group openly like that, you come closer together and it’s very important to do that sometimes.<\/p>\n

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“If you’re not honest, I think it’s hard to improve. It was a good chat, we certainly enjoyed today, and now we’re going to prepare for a big game against Chelsea<\/a> next weekend.”<\/p>\n

Having avoided the Champions League playoffs, Arsenal will not have a midweek game for the first time in more than two months.<\/p>\n

Arsenal’s title rivals Manchester City are also not back in action until next weekend — when they face Leeds at Elland Road on Saturday evening — and Pep Guardiola said he will allow his players to enjoy some cocktails in the coming days.<\/p>\n

But, in response to Guardiola’s plans, Arteta said with a smile: “Cocktails? I don’t drink cocktails. So, no, we will do our own thing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Viktor Gy\u00f6keres believes Arsenal’s statement derby win against Tottenham was the “perfect response” to silence the club’s critics.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-499212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}