Gary Lineker insists that Arsenal striker Viktor Gyokeres needs to take a leaf out of Dominic Calvert-Lewin\u2019s book if he wants to score more goals.<\/p>\n
The Gunners signed the Sweden international in the summer transfer market for around \u00a363.5m from Portuguese giants Sporting CP.<\/p>\n
Gyokeres scored 97 goals in 102 appearances for Sporting before the former Coventry City star got a move back to England with Arsenal<\/a> \u2013 but he hasn\u2019t been as prolific on his return.<\/p>\n The 27-year-old has contributed seven goals and no assists in 21 appearances in all competitions for Arsenal with four of those goals coming in two matches against Leeds and Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n Gyokeres is struggling to have the impact hoped but Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta is still very confident that the Swede will come good eventually.<\/p>\n Arteta said recently of Gyokeres\u2019 struggles: \u201cEverybody was so excited to bring him into the club. We did it. We brought a player with an incredible scoring record who had to adapt to the league. He had no pre-season.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Big Midweek: Arsenal v Villa, Eddie Howe on the brink, Man City, Matheus Cunha v Wolves\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThe first few weeks were difficult because physically he wasn\u2019t in his best state and he\u2019s a player that needs that, like any other player in this league, almost to perform at that level.<\/p>\n \u201cI know we need to continue to tweak and understand him a little bit better in certain situations, and he needs to do the same. But that\u2019s about time. We have full support for him.\u201d<\/p>\n And Lineker reckons Gyokeres needs to be a bit more like Leeds striker Calvert-Lewin to score more goals with the England international gambling on crosses into the penalty area.<\/p>\n Lineker said on The Rest Is Football podcast<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019ve watched him [Gyokeres] quite closely the last few weeks and I think he\u2019s like most strikers, is one that waits to see where it\u2019s going, the ball, waits until it\u2019s crossed and then attacks the space.<\/p>\n MORE ON ARSENAL FROM F365\u2026 \u201cThat\u2019s what defenders do, as a striker you got to gamble on where you think the ball might go and you go just as they\u2019re about to cross it. You steal a march on the defender that way and lots of the time the ball won\u2019t go there, but I don\u2019t see him doing that very often.<\/p>\n \u201cDominic Calvert Lewin did a perfect example of how to do that for the Leeds goal at Sunderland, perfect. He didn\u2019t wait and to see where it was going to go. He went right, I pulled away and then he sprinted at the near post and hoped that the ball would be delivered there and it was.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t see that too often from Gyokeres at present, the players that score big numbers will do that. You know, [Erling] Haaland, [Harry] Kane, [Robert] Lewandowski, they know how to make those kind of moves into those spaces.<\/p>\n \u201cIs it something you can learn? I\u2019ve always thought yes, but because it\u2019s actually common sense because it\u2019s law of probability when you think about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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