{"id":645091,"date":"2026-10-13T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645091\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T12:20:09","slug":"mikel-arteta-issues-ruthless-goalscoring-challenge-to-bukayo-saka-as-arsenal-boss-demands-superstar-level-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/645091\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta issues RUTHLESS goalscoring challenge to Bukayo Saka as Arsenal boss demands superstar level output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked if Saka should be aiming to match his 20-goal milestone from last season, Arteta dismissed the idea. The Arsenal boss instead outlined a new, aggressive approach for his forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I think the numbers should go to score two or three per game,&#8221; Arteta explained. &#8220;That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s the mindset. And then if you score one, so be it, you score two, so be it, because he has the ability to score in many ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard stressed that calculating long-term tallies can hinder a striker&#8217;s edge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But normally, if you go to all the attackers, and that&#8217;s the way, I think you have to attack something,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Because if you go &#8217;20, OK, now we are in October, I still have eight months to score 17 more goals.&#8217; That&#8217;s not the mindset, that&#8217;s not going to take you there.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When asked if Saka should be aiming to match his 20-goal milestone from last season, Arteta dismissed the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4026,290038,262107,4488,85,46,47900,18096,2619,105],"class_list":["post-645091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arsenal","tag-arsenal-vs-lille","tag-b-saka","tag-champions-league","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lille","tag-m-arteta","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}