Viktor Gyokeres has encouraged his Arsenal team-mates to move on from their defeat to Bournemouth and embrace their final matches of the season.
The Gunners fell to a 2-1 defeat to Bournemouth on Saturday, allowing Manchester City the chance to close the gap at the Premier League summit.
In the loss, Gyokeres scored his 18th goal in all competitions this season – among all players to debut for Arsenal in the Premier League era (from 1992-93), only Thierry Henry in 1999-00 (26) and Alexis Sanchez in 2014-15 (25) scored more in their debut campaign with the Gunners.
Nevertheless, after only suffering three defeats in their opening 49 matches of this season in all competitions (W37 D9), Arsenal have since lost three of their last four (W1).
Arsenal's performance against Bournemouth was far from their best as they produced just 0.19 xG from open play, their second lowest in a home league match on record (since 2021-22).
However, with their Champions League quarter-final second leg against Sporting CP coming up on Wednesday, Gyokeres believes they have the perfect chance to regain confidence.
"We didn't come up to our level throughout the game," Gyokeres said about Arsenal's display against Bournemouth.
"I think when we scored to make it 1-1, we felt good as a team. We had some dangerous chances before that, and we wanted to take control of the second half, but maybe we didn't create enough in attack.
"They didn't create so much either, but they were clinical and they scored on the chances they got. That's why it wasn't a good result.
"We have a lot of important games to come and we need to embrace it and to enjoy playing those games.
"Like I said, it's a great game to have in a few days, so we just need to recover now, leave this behind and make a very good performance on Wednesday."
Gannymalta
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The earlier Arsenal get Fabrigas and sack Arteta,the better chances of Arsenal winning trophies,the team is so rigid
so rigid and fixed to routines. What training is this team doing? Urgency is lost! Creativity is gone! The players are outplayed even in resilience. Manager Arteta manages the players with kids gloves. Opportunities for Trophies are all slipping away in our very eyes!
Gannymalta
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Change the approach and mindset. From BACK to midfield and from MIDFIELD to BACK again.... and this is over 70% of your possession: how will goals come? how will strikers score without regular feeds? These Arsenal losses are a big sign that something is not correct. Unfortunately the very thing they need to change and work on is their very comfort zone! Change the Head Manager, and bring new ideas. 6 years has achieved great things: putting the team in fighting levels. Thank you Arteta, Arsenal is greater than before. But ideas run dry, let fresh ideas that shall focus on resilience and scoring in big games come from "fresh Manager", so that the team can build from Arteta's greatness to become the trophy winning team Arsenal deserves to be
vitadeklmo
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Sack Arteta and let Thierry Henry to finish the last games
Mamat211
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Cant blame him alone overall game was F
scottjack22440
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Worry more about Barca pulling off a comeback against Athletico Madrid first.
bro leave Barca and stay focus 😂😂😂 or else you'll cry blood at the end of the season and still go home trophy less
scottjack22440
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It because of arteta tactic..backpass and sidepass..no idea and not to change the tactic.. Player become a robot..to follow the system that kill the creativity and skill of all players.. No freedom from manager for those good player we have..arteta is rubbish and stubborn coach.. He never change..he never take any advice from others..that’s why he very arrogant with his tactic.. When certain player injured..the tacical and system gone..although he have 25 player to train…train with other tactic with other players.. End of the season should be more aggresive and more good combination like other team.. The problem is…Arteta
now you guys are complaining 🤣🤣🤣..... you haven't seen anything
Badhur
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Yo we’re good at sporting … why you left for a bottlers club like ArseAnal
ColinsGooner
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The earlier Arsenal get Fabrigas and sack Arteta,the better chances of Arsenal winning trophies,the team is so rigid
Sabkmorsu
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In EPL , you don't gamble, you don't give space, unfortunately Arsenal has only 2 players who are hungry of winning, hard working, out Arsenal ahead of their schedule..that's Maghres and Rice. the rest are just tomatoes...no trophy under Arteta's outdated tactics
Sabkmorsu
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We have to accept that Arsenal as a team lost the midfield the day party was shown exit, playing Rice in a wring position, and having no wingers.its gone..another season of mourning
Coboryz
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If Arsenal beat city next Sunday, damn sure.... Arsenal is The Winner. Otherwise same old story.
سردارایوب۔اکاخیل
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the jinx continue
leuming75
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It because of arteta tactic..backpass and sidepass..no idea and not to change the tactic.. Player become a robot..to follow the system that kill the creativity and skill of all players.. No freedom from manager for those good player we have..arteta is rubbish and stubborn coach.. He never change..he never take any advice from others..that’s why he very arrogant with his tactic.. When certain player injured..the tacical and system gone..although he have 25 player to train…train with other tactic with other players.. End of the season should be more aggresive and more good combination like other team.. The problem is…Arteta
jayaeortz
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Arsenal has never won the UEFA Champions League or its predecessor, the European Cup. The club’s closest attempt was in the 2005-06 season, where they reached the final but lost 2-1 to FC Barcelona. They have competed in the tournament 23 times as of 2024-25.
Moebloprtz
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ARTETTA is d cuz of ARSENAL downfall cuz he never STUDY PEP back in the 1days of CITY
bozablptuy
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its true, Arsenal did not perform well & we need to acknowlegde that players are tired though they need to step up & put on a winning mentality, we need trophies
tezabckpu
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arsenal is a joke nomatter how many points ahead lead they fall until the final round ,artata is ajoker
Ubong12
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You 1st score 90% of the chances you miss then YOU can talk about EMBRACING IMPORTANT GAMES
Which striker in world is expected to convert every fucking chances?
Ubong12
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He put in a great performance today, from the offensive part to the defensive part, So he's right, we don't have reason to dwell on this result, no amount of scapegoating or fingers pointing will change the outcome. Let's just keep pushing whether Man city beat Chelsea or not. It's still in our hands.
adedefender
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Imagine if Sporting pulled off a comeback against Arsenal next week although it will be really tough but it's football.
Worry more about Barca pulling off a comeback against Athletico Madrid first.
Kevin_dybala_Arg
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Imagine if Sporting pulled off a comeback against Arsenal next week although it will be really tough but it's football.
ClemJay
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Be quiet! was today's game not important? The game that the team had today was the most important in this title race. It would have been better to win Bournemouth today and drawn Sporting CP in next week's return leg.
gashantalle
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You 1st score 90% of the chances you miss then YOU can talk about EMBRACING IMPORTANT GAMES
luuilnpstu
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you ditched Man United and you'll rip the Karma...at least you're still qualified for UCL next season 🤣🤣🤣🤣
dukekpsu
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If Arsenal don't win the league they are cursed indeed and should never consider the feature.
Richardoghale
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😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ayobamiadeayo
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Yes my guy 😂