It has been a brilliant few days for both Norway and Sweden in the Nations League. While Norway knocked in a 4 – 1 win against Serbia and a whopping 5 – 0 against Kazakhstan with a hat-trick by Erling Braut Haaland, the Swedes have Viktor Gyökeres who scores at an even higher pace than the Norwegian goal machine.
The word super striker for the 26-year-old became even more appropriate when he passed Erling Braut Haaland on the top scorer list in the Nations League on Tuesday. The super striker “everyone” in Europe is talking about, delivered the goods at home in Stockholm against Azerbaijan in the Nations League. – It happened two weeks after he put Erling Braut Haaland completely in the shadow in the Champions League.
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When Erling Haaland walked off the pitch in Lisbon earlier this month, it was with a penalty miss and zero goals. Fellow striker Gyökeres at Sporting had scored three in what ended with a 4-1 win for Sporting. The Swede has an impressive 23 goals in 18 games.
With four goals against Azerbaijan, Viktor Gyökeres landed on nine goals in the Nations League so far. “I feel in good shape. I’m hungry and want to score a lot of goals,” Gyökeres said after the game.
After scoring goal after goal for Sporting in the Portuguese league and Champions League and now also for Sweden, Viktor Gyökeres will go to a bigger club, guaranteed.
It is fair to ask whether it would have been wiser for Manchester United to let one of the current goalscorers Ruud van Nistelrooy be the heir to Erik ten Hag and bring in Viktor Gyökeres for 100 million euros rather than buy out Sporting’s manager Ruben Amorim. – We ask the question with the knowledge that Ruben Amorim is a very good manager. On Sunday at Portman Road, he will have a first chance to prove he is the one.
So a bit of storytelling to explain the headline. Just before Erling Braut Haaland was sold to Manchester City for €60 million in the summer of 2022, Borussia Dortmund manager Marco Rose was fired. Haaland has become the top scorer in the Premier League without the manager who put him on the map in Europe. Haaland will have to work hard to preserve that title after Viktor Gyökeres lands on the ball island.
The goalkeeper has naturally been linked with a move to Manchester. “He probably has a lot of strikers there already, so we’ll see,” Gyökeres said earlier this week.
Sweden won the Nations League group and are promoted to level B after the 6-0 win at home.
But what a shame for everyone who missed a new show by Viktor Gyökeres. The Sporting striker is on a sensational streak and has conceded four goals. The power vessel from Aspudden never gives up and is extremely difficult to stop in the sixteen meters. Just like he turned the ball on the opponent’s kick-off after 4-0 and won it and sent it 5-0.
He may not be responsible for the elegant goals, but who doesn’t want such a strong striker in the starting eleven. Completely ruthless towards the opponents and then you should know that Gyökeres also gets a lot of beating. It is understandable that some of Europe’s biggest clubs follow the Swede who scores goals regardless of whether it is against Manchester City or inferior teams. The stakes are always there.
Gyökere’s efforts in the Nations League have made an impression, and with four goals on Tuesday, he tops the scoring charts for this autumn’s tournament. Nine goals in six games. Behind him are Haaland, Ronaldo, Sesko and teammate Isak. Yes, it is a powerful exchange he had and something we saw an embryo of earlier in the national team. So far 32 goals for Sporting and Sweden this autumn and also leads the scoring league in the Portuguese league and in the Champions League.
Together with Alexander Isak and Dejan Kulusevski, it will be a potent trio up front. Kulusevski is a combination playmaker and fighter. The attitude is impressive and with two goals and an assist, he showed his class. Isak moves over large areas and is more elegant, but lacked flow when he had a goal wrongly disallowed for offside and saw his penalty saved.
