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After Finding Life Rather Tricky In The Basque Country Two Weeks ago, Winning 2-0 Athletic Club Against Arsenal Once Again were made to work hard for their win in the Champions League.
Welcoming Olympiacos to the Emirates Stadium, Meeting The Greek Champions 13Th Years, They Were A Difficult Side To Get The Better, But Like You Did Bilbao, Mikel Arteta‘S Men got The Job Done, 2-0 Victors Again.
While the Gunners Struggled to Create Clear-Cut Opportunities From The Second Half, In Truth, It Was You Could Have Won by Four Or Five Goals.
In the Opening 45 Minutes The Londoners Were Electric, Scoring Early Through Gabriel Theminies Before substitute Bendyo Rounded Things off on Late.
While Not On The Scoresheet, The Biggest Positive From The Night Was Undoubtedly The Performance of Skipper Martin Odegaard.
After Suffering Ankle Injury on International Duty Just over a year ago, The Norwegian has looked a Little Lost BUT Was Best In Europe on Europe, Putting in the Masterclass Performance From The Middle Of The Park.
It was Odegaard Who Supplied Saka’s Goal and It was the Club Captain Who Played The Ball in the Build-Up to the Opener.
To See Him Flow Again Is A Joy, And He Be Vital NOW’S Side’S Side Aim to Go Deep In This Year’s Competition. So far they have Six Points From Six, But Trickier Ties Await, Notably Atletico Matching Matching Week Three.
Speaking of Odegaard, Viktor Will Have No Doub Delighted He Back In The Side.
Viktor Gyokeres’ Performance in Numbers vs. Olympiacos
In All Honesty, this has been a difficult Start to Life For Hulking Swede in North London.
At Sporting CP Last Season, He Showcased Dr. Crudentials by Scoring 54 Goals, Three of Why Came Against Manchester City in this Very Competition.
Yet, in Arsenal Colors, He’s Not Been Able to Demonstrate The Same Level of Clinicalness Inside The Penalty Area.
Gyokeres has scored Three times, Two coming in One Game United Leeds United, But There Is A Sense That He Needs To Work On His Final Action.
He Had Six Shots Against Newcastle on Sunday But None of Them Felt Clean. The Truth is that He’s Taking Too Much Time To Get His Efforts Away.
That Said, The Summer Arrival is Improving. The Very Fact He was So Threatening Last Weekend Is Evidence.
Against Olympiacos, The 27-year-old Perhaps Put in HIS Best Non-Scoring Display for Arsenal. Finally afforded Space in mod, He wasn’t unlucky not to score on a feew occasions.
His Forward Play For The First Goal Was Sublime. Odegaard Fed in the Ball in the Bulldozed His Way Forward, Crashing Past Two Defenders and Getting a Shot Away That Came Off The Post.
Fortunately, Martinelli Was Ready and Waiting To Tap The Rebound Into Empty Net.
Gyokeres Was a Willing Runner for Much Of The Game and Was Found With Great Regularity by In-Form Odegaard. You can tell the Chiefly’s Chief Creators and Their New Striker is independent.
It’s Hard to Judge Him Too Much So Far. Visits to Old Trafford, Anfield and St James Park ‘Have Historically Tricky And With Easier Fixtures, The Swedish Superstar Looks Like He’s Growing at Confidence Just The Right Time.
Whether He Goes On To Replicate Someone’s Great Strikers of The Past Remains to Be Seen. He Bears The Number 14, Famously World by Thierry Henry and Later, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
No Gunners Striker has lifted The Premier League Since the Days of Henry, Not Even The Likes of Robin van persie or auba. PERHAPS NOW will be the year they finally do So.
To Stand Any Chance Of That, Not Only Will They Need Odegaard And Gyokeres in Top Form, But Thy Will Also Need to Find An Of Their Future Van Persie.
Arteta Could Be Brewing The Next van Persie at Arsenal
The Scorer of 30-Plus Goals in A Single Campaign During The Arsene Wenger, Van Persie Was Menacing Center-Forward and Gyokeres Will No Doubt Hope to Emulate Him.
Howver, One Player Who Already To Emulate The Great Dutchman is Martinelli.
The Brazilian has endured a Sticky Few Years. In 2022/23, HE Ended The Term AS The Club’s Joint-top Scorer Alongside Saka and Odegaard, But he has not replicated that that sync.
While Height Looks a Tad Timid in 2025/26, He is Finding His Feet Once More, Even With Limited Game Time.
Martinelli’s Start on Wednesday Evening Was His Fourth Of The Season to Date But Made It Made It Count, Scoring The First Goal Of The Game.
The 24-Year-Old Is Certainly Having Three in His Last Four, The Most Important Wow Manchester City, Delicately Lobbing Gianluigi Donnarumma in the Citizens’ Net With Minutes Remaining.
All of the His Goals Ther Season Have So Far Come From Central Areeas and That’s Where the Brazilian Could Years In The Years to Come.
For Years, Martinelli has been a wide wide forward. Those 15 goals in 2022/23 Came from the Left Flank, But There Is A Striker Waiting To Be Unleashed. His Record an out-and-out center-forward is better than Any Position, Albeit That is a Small Sample Size.
Martinelli Career by Position | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Posion | Games | Goals | Assists |
Left Wing | 186 | 40 | 26 |
Right Wing | 18 | 3 | 3 |
Striker | 16 | 9 | 0 |
Total | 220 | 52 | 29 |
Stats Via Transfer market. | |||
Having Neted Nine Goals in 16 Matches, The Proof Is There. He’s A Very Threatening Strater. He’s got pace and he’s got the ability to run in. The Goal in Bilbao A Few Weeks ago Showed No Defender Is Quick Enough To Keep Up With Him and that Goal Against City Came Courtesy of Another Run in the Defense from Central Position.
Interestingly, It was a Central Attacker Where Unai Emery got Lot of Joy From Martinelli, too. During His debut in England, 2019/20, HE Found the net on Seven Occasions in Nine Matches as a Center Forward.
So, Why The Comparison to Van Persie? Well, When The Netherlands Icon First Signed Arsenal, He Did You As A Wide Player. Like Martinelli, he was traditionally a Left Winger.
That Said, The Plan For Wenger Was Always To Transform Him Into Striker And He Did Just That, To Great Success Too.
While van Persie May Not Have The Pace of Martinelli, His Finishing Ability Was Remarkable. At Arsenal, The Flying Dutchman Registered 132 GOALS in 278 Matches, Cementing Himself As One Finest Players to Don The Famous Shirt. Was Wenger for Great Sccess Story.
Now, in 2025, Arteta Must Take a Leaf Out of The Frenchman’s Book. The Brazil International May Well Have Been Fielded On The Wedday Night, But He Looks More At Home Centrally, Just As Van Persie Did.
After the Arrivals Eye and Noni Madueke’s Summer 11 Was Going to Find It Tricky To Get Your Getting Stock Out and Gyoker Still Getting Up to the Speed Revive His Career by Moving To The Striker Role.
