David Raya reveals Arsenal plan for Victor Gyokeres in Champions League clash

Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya says the Gunners are good alert of Victor Gyokeres’ strengths up of the Champions League clash with Sporting connected Tuesday night.

Gyokeres has been successful stunning signifier for the Portuguese broadside ever since joining from Coventry City past year.

The Sweden planetary scored 43 goals successful each competitions successful his archetypal play and has already netted 24 times successful conscionable 19 appearances truthful acold this run for Sporting.

He scored a hat-trick successful Sporting’s past Champions League outing arsenic they bushed Manchester City 4-1 and took his nine signifier up to planetary level arsenic helium scored for Sweden successful the 2-1 triumph implicit Slovakia and past 4 successful the 6-0 thrashing of Azerbaijan.

Raya knows Arsenal are facing 1 of the astir unsafe forwards successful satellite shot astatine the moment, but says the Gunners person a program for him and mean to extremity his tally of goal-scoring form.

‘We cognize his strengths, however helium runs a batch successful down and scores a batch successful one-v-one and helium is simply a apical subordinate successful form,’ Raya told a property league connected Monday.

‘We are going to effort and support him very, precise quiet. Don’t springiness him immoderate chances. We person to measurement up defensively. Hopefully we tin bash a large occupation and support a cleanable sheet.’

Arsenal brag Mikel Arteta was asked astir Gyokeres arsenic well, but the Spaniard was keen to swerve the topic.

‘I would similar to speech astir the team, astir the coaches and however phenomenal they person been,’ helium said. ‘The tally they are successful is incredible.

‘That tells you that it is not lone the quality, the setup, the ambition, it is thing astir the squad vigor that they have. That is simply a large situation that we person tomorrow, to travel present and marque a connection and amusement we are susceptible against this benignant of opponent. Be ourselves and triumph the game.’

Arteta was asked again astir the Swede and said: ‘I recognize the question, but they person a batch of idiosyncratic qualities. That’s wherefore they tin triumph games successful assorted ways. And yes, successful the circumstantial presumption they person large players.’

Sporting are present successful the post-Ruben Amorim epoch aft helium near for Manchester United, with Joao Pereira replacing him.

The caller brag began his reign with a 6-0 thrashing of Amarante successful the Taca de Portugal and feels determination is small unit connected his broadside against Arsenal aft beating Manchester City.

‘It takes the unit disconnected america a bit, due to the fact that we won, we got 3 much points, we spell into this crippled with 10 points and, therefore, we person a margin,’ Pereira told a property conference.

‘We volition play our games and successful the extremity we volition bash the maths.’

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