Viktor Gyökeres' biggest flaw is becoming impossible to ignore

Viktor Gyökeres started yet another big game for Arsenal and went without his name on the scoresheet yet again. It is now becoming a trend.

He is really not doing well in these big games where he should be performing. For a player who was in the golden boot race last season, going goalless against the big teams is a demeaning new challenge.

Gyökeres played the entirety of 100 minutes at home and did not do much to impress. In fact, he did nothing at all. He left no impression and created no meaningful chance for Arsenal to capitalize on. He was, you know, just there. But that is the job of the fans in the stands, not a player who signed for a 60 million transfer fee.

Viktor Gyökeres’ biggest flaw is becoming impossible to ignore

And even if we ignore the goal drought, his expected assists stood at 0.01 at the end of the game. I do not want to mince my words here: that is absolutely awful and outrageous. He's not living the promises he made.

Zero dribble attempts. Zero shots on target. Zero shots off target as well. Thirteen times possession lost. And a 62% passing accuracy. That is such a bad performance I have lost words to describe it with any superlatives now.

At an earlier point in this season, this could have been, and was, brushed off as the player settling in a new setting. I too was an active participant in that narrative. But how long is it going to take for him to actually settle down and sort himself out?

Arsenal had to once again depend on a household name to score the late equalizer because their very expensive center forward was not living up to expectations on another ordinary night.

Gyökeres was accused of being a flat-track bully, only scoring against smaller sides and disappearing against the big ones, and I am afraid it is just being proved right.

Mikel Arteta and his staff need to seriously look into the player’s development and see what exactly has stumbled him from being what he was only a few months ago in Portugal.

One thing I know is that things are going to get serious at Arsenal very soon. They want to charge for this Premier League title with everything they have. Another second-place finish will be too bad to accept.

And with the Champions League, having exited at the semifinal last season, the bar is set high to make it to Budapest.

Performances like this are not going to do it, sadly. Serious introspection is needed at the Emirates.