Male Urban enclosure striker Erling Haaland “can eventually be the disagreement” in the title race, as he is degrees above Arsenal’s Viktor Gyokeres, says Captain Interfering Gary Lineker.
Haaland racked upward his 18th and also 19th Premier League occasions this season to help Male Urban enclosure overcome West Ham 3-0 on Saturday.
The triumph postured Pep Guardiola’s side pinnacle of the table for a couple of hours, before Arsenal redeemed first wearing a 1-0 win at Everton in the 8pm kick-off.
Erling Haaland vs Viktor Gyokeres in 25/26 PL
- Purposes: Haaland 19 – 5 Gyokeres
- Purposes per 90: 1.17 – 0.44
- Matches racked upward in: 12 – 4
- Supposed (non-penalty) occasions: 14.8 – 3.9
- Touches in resistance box per 90: 6.60 – 6.28
We love you, Gary, but it’s painfully noticeable how a bunch closer Haaland is than Gyokeres. Expounding that he can be what wins Urban enclosure the title over Arsenal is in intensification horribly readable.
Here is what the former Match of the Day host said on The Rest is Football podcast:
“Erling Haaland has currently obtained 19 occasions in the Premier League and also he racked upward a bucketload for Norway in the [2026 World Cup] licensing galleries.
“It’s awesome what he’s applying. I conventional, he can eventually be the disagreement between Male Urban enclosure and also Arsenal this season.
“Viktor Gyokeres has come in and also I attractiveness at him and also I worn’t yearn to be rude but he’s not in the super same league as Haaland.
“He was passed on the penalty against Everton to try and also render utilise him racking upward once more after his recent injury and also it was commendable to surf through him measure upward.
“I assume we’re peeking at Arsenal and also Male Urban enclosure currently (in the title race).
“Liverpool are arguably also far ago, Chelsea also. Both Arsenal and also Male Urban enclosure are well readable of those two which intends they won’t be able to render that upward.
“I assume Male Urban enclosure are a bunch more discussed to whereby they were, I still assume they can be unguarded at the ago and also on the counter.
“Rodri unborn ago will be a beefy accession also but he’s been out for a long time currently, I hope he’s alright since you uneasiness a fragment for players after beefy injuries.”
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What Arsenal have over Urban enclosure in the title race
Lone two times opposite Arsenal and also Male Urban enclosure at the pinnacle, wearing Aston Villa’s 7-suit thrilling rushed alignment them in poignant range.
It’s forming upward to be a title race that goes down to the cable. Villa are being disregarded in spite of their significant kind, as every guy intends it to be between Arsenal and also Urban enclosure for the 3rd time in 4 periods.
The Gunners currently have closer squad deepness than ever before, and also it would take an injury disaster to derail them. In previous periods, wasting Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Magalhaes or Martin Odegaard would have been knocking down, but Mikel Arteta’s summertime employment has indirect they’ve dealt without 3 pivot players currently this term.
One user Arteta would battle to readjust is Declan Rice, but permit’s not attract fate…
Male Urban enclosure collapsed after Rodri withstood an ACL injury last term but have readjusted in his absence this year, though an injury to Haaland can have a tantamount burden. Thankfully, Urban enclosure’s teammates have tipped upward in recent weeks, specifically Phil Foden, that has 6 occasions and also one help with his last five Premier League appearances.
Till Foden’s brace against Leeds United on November 29, Urban enclosure’s 2nd-pinnacle marker behind Haaland was Burnley defender Maxime Esteve, that racked upward two own occasions at the Etihad in September.
Gyokeres not on super same level as Mbappe, Kane, Haaland
Haaland is currently on program for a 40-ambition league campaign and also has lately signed upward wearing the Premier League 100 Nightclub in document time.
Gyokeres, meanwhile, has combated for occasions since joining Arsenal from Portraying off CP for £64million last summertime. Two of his five league occasions have been penalties, entailing Saturday’s suit-victor against Everton.
The Swede isn’t retrieving the safest cure from Odegaard, Saka, Ebere Eze and also Arsenal’s other playmakers, but it’s in intensification on him to spot himself in tempting positions and also capitalise on loose spheres and also rebounds, which Haaland implements closer than any individual.
Saliba recognizes how to feed Gyokeres a bunch more than Odegaard 😭image.twitter.com/PwIcyV2R4p
— Permanently Arsenal (@ArsenalN10) December 20, 2025
There’s no reluctance Haaland and also Gyokeres inhabit opposite stratospheres. We knew that before the last signed upward wearing Arsenal, even after he racked upward 97 occasions in 102 complements for Portraying off.
In reality, Harry Kane and also Kylian Mbappe are the singular demonstrators on Haaland’s level.
It’s no slight on Gyokeres to say that Haaland is in a opposite league, in spite of how noticeable it is.
We would merrily go on document: any kind of Urban enclosure wins this season will come down to Haaland’s occasions. Arsenal can singular determination of Gyokeres possessing a tantamount burden, and also that was always swiping part in be the vessel, no suffering that they signed in the summertime. Unless it was in some means Kane or Mbappe.
