Viktor Gyokeres says Arsenal cannot afford to look beyond the next match as the season enters April, insisting every point matters and the squad must keep its focus on the pitch. The £63.5million striker, who arrived after winning back-to-back titles in Portugal with Sporting CP, said the club still have too much left to play for to get distracted by the finish line.
“You have to be so focused every game and take every game as seriously as you can, no matter who you play. All the points that you get count in the end,” Gyokeres said. He added that players cannot become too frustrated when results do not go their way because “it’s always a long season and there’s still a lot to play for.”
The message lands at a moment when Arsenal have the best goalscoring record and the best defensive record in the English top flight this season, a combination that has kept them in the chase for the Premier League and the Champions League. Gyokeres has been one of the faces of that push for most of the 2025/26 season, spearheading the attack after joining Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus as centre-forward options.
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Arsenal’s summer was built around depth and competition. Mikel Arteta wanted at least two strong candidates for each position, and the club added Martin Zubimendi, Eberechi Eze, Piero Hincapie, Kepa Arrizabalaga and Noni Madueke, each bringing recent trophy-winning experience. Gabriel Heinze also joined the coaching staff before Gyokeres arrived, giving the forward another senior voice in a dressing room stocked with winners.
“Every player has different experiences through their careers and different feelings about the same situations,” Gyokeres said. “I think it’s always important to come with a different mindset sometimes and to look at it in a different way, but with the same intentions as everyone else in the club.” He said Arsenal have “a lot of players in the team who have won trophies,” and that is what they want to do again this season.
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Heinze’s presence appears to have settled quickly. Gyokeres said the former Premier League, Ligue 1 and La Liga winner “brings a lot of good energy into the group,” a small but telling sign of how Arsenal are trying to turn pedigree into a habit. For a team fighting on two fronts, the test now is not whether they know what success looks like, but whether they can keep treating every game as if it is the one that decides it.
