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Arsenal have had a big problem in attack this season. Even though they have been winning a lot of their games, Arsenal have not really looked all that convincing in attack.
Most of what they have done has come from either Bukayo Saka or their midfield - and sometimes their left-winger, whoever it is - but they have been lacking that consistent goalscoring output from their striker.
Arsenal signed Viktor Gyokeres from Sporting for a very high transfer fee, and he just has not been able to gel with the rest of his teammates and adapt to the team's offense as well as he would have hoped to.
Gyokeres is finding it difficult to adapt to the Premier League, and even though the general expectation is that the Swedish striker will figure it out, it is taking a lot of time for him to have an impact in a positive sense.
Gary Lineker might be right about Viktor Gyökeres’ biggest issue at Arsenal
Former England icon Gary Lineker - who knows a thing or two about scoring goals - was recently asked about what he thinks is the problem with Gyokeres at the moment, and his answer was actually really interesting.
He said: “I’ve watched Gyökeres quite closely the last few weeks and I think like most strikers he is one that waits to see where the ball is going. He waits until it’s crossed and then attacks the space.
“That’s what defenders do, as a striker you got to gamble on where you think the ball might go and you go just as they’re about to cross it. You steal a march on the defender that way and lots of the time the ball won’t go there, but I don’t see him doing that very often.
“Dominic Calvert-Lewin did a perfect example of how to do that for the Leeds goal at Sunderland, perfect. He didn’t 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.
“I don’t see that too often from Gyökeres at present, the players that score big numbers will do that. You know, Haaland, Kane and Lewandowski, they know how to make those kind of moves into those spaces.
“Is it something you can learn? I’ve always thought yes, but because it’s actually common sense because it’s the law of probability when you think about it.”
He is bang on with his assessment this time. Gyokeres is being reactive instead of proactive right now, and that is the biggest difference between him and the rest of the elite scorers in the Premier League.
Arsenal need his off-ball movement to be pin-point, and doing that for a consistent basis will not only help the team, but also Gyokeres' confidence and ability.