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![🚨Viktor Gyökeres on what Mikel Arteta told him and Mikel Merino before bringing them on against Hull City: 🗣️ Viktor Gyökeres: “I remember looking at the clock and thinking, ‘We need something different.’ We had controlled a lot of the game, but we hadn’t scored. Hull were making it extremely difficult. They were defending deep, staying compact and giving us almost nothing between the lines. Then Mikel called me and Merino over. He looked at both of us and said, ‘Listen carefully. I don’t want you to come on and play the same game we have been playing.’ He said, ‘We have been trying to break the door down. Now I want you two to kick it open.’ [laughs] That got my attention. Then he looked at Merino and said, ‘Mikel, I need you arriving. Not standing. Arriving.’ Then he looked at me and said, ‘Viktor, I don’t need you to touch the ball twenty times. I need you to make them scared every time you run behind them.’ He told us, ‘They are comfortable right now. Make them uncomfortable.’ Then he said something I really liked: ‘Don’t come on thinking you have to score immediately. First, change the feeling of the game.’ ‘If you make one defender turn, another midfielder drop and the whole back line start worrying, the goal will come.’ That was the message. Very simple. Very clear. When I came on, I could feel the defenders were suddenly looking at me differently. Every time I moved, somebody followed me. And that created space for the players around me. Arteta then shouted, ‘Mikel, get closer to Viktor! Don’t leave him alone!’ Merino started pushing higher, I started making the runs, and suddenly Hull had another problem to deal with. Before we went on, Arteta looked at us one more time and said, ‘You have twenty minutes to change this game. Don’t wait for the game to come to you. Go and take it.’ That sentence stayed in my head. Then something started to change. We were moving the ball quicker, making better runs and forcing Hull to defend deeper. And then Ødegaard found the moment. Martin got the goal, and suddenly everything Arteta had been talking about on the touchline made sense. The goal wasn’t just about one finish. It came because we had finally changed the rhythm of the game. Hull had been comfortable for so long, but after the changes, they were suddenly having to make decisions they didn’t want to make. When the ball went in, I looked towards Merino and then towards the bench. We both knew exactly what had happened. Arteta didn’t need to say anything. The plan had worked. For me, that is what a manager should do in a difficult game. He sees the problem, makes the change and gives the players a clear responsibility. He didn’t ask us to become heroes. He asked us to change the game. And Ødegaard got the goal that finally gave us the reward. That is football sometimes. You can dominate for a long time and still need one change, one run, one pass and one finish to break everything open.” #gunners #arsenal #gyokeres](/video/cover/7705516162158791943.webp)
