Published: 17:00, 22 October 2025 | Updated: 17:08, 22 October 2025

Viktor Gyokeres just needed one to go in, it really didn’t matter how. Seven games without a goal for Arsenal’s new £65million striker is plenty enough these days to be written off as a lost cause.

A brace against Atletico Madrid, though, was just what he needed. That his first came courtesy of stabbing the ball against a defender’s foot and watching it dribble into the opposite corner didn’t matter one jot. No pictures in the scorebook.

While plenty others were happy to cast their doubts on whether Arsenal had signed the striker they needed after all, Mikel Arteta never lost faith.

‘He deserved it because everything that we were seeing in terms of what he was bringing to the team and how much he was helping the team in many areas, apart from scoring goals in the last few weeks, there was no debate about that,' Arteta said after the match.

‘He makes us a much better team. We’ve become much more unpredictable. He’s so physical and the way he presses the...