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Wayne Rooney says Viktor Gyokeres kept doing something \u201creally clever\u201d against Fulham as Ian Wright hailed the Arsenal striker for \u201csolving a problem\u201d.<\/p>\n
Gyokeres joined Arsenal from Sporting for \u00a355m in the summer and his brace against Fulham took him to 21 goals in all competitions in his debut season.<\/p>\n
The Swede has been criticised for much of his first Gunners campaign, but after his standout showing on Saturday, which gave Arsenal a six-point lead over Manchester City at the top of the Premier League<\/strong>Rooney hailed the striker\u2019s display and some \u201creally clever\u201d movement.<\/p>\n \u201cSo normally you see forwards wanting that space in the penalty box, but what he does here, which is really clever, he almost goes and marks himself,\u201d Rooney said on Match of the Day<\/em>.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Arsenal expose Liverpool and avoid their Suarez meltdown moment as Gyokeres comes of age<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe gets really tight with the Fulham defender and now his run is smaller. So if Saka crossed that ball in right here, it\u2019s a one-yard run and then he gets across the defender, but he doesn\u2019t. Great skill by Saka.<\/p>\n \u201cHe readjusts his body. Now he\u2019s in full control of the defender. The defender\u2019s flat footed, and again it\u2019s a one-yard run. He wrestled with the defender. But that little one yard run gets him in the middle of the goal for a nice tap in and his movement was very clever today all day.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd as we see right here this running behind good centre-forward play keeping the Fulham defenders on their toes.\u201d<\/p>\n Arsenal hero Ian Wright believes Gyokeres<\/strong> has \u201csolved a problem\u201d for his former side despite the significant criticism he\u2019s received this term.<\/p>\n Wright told Premier League Live<\/em>: \u201cPeople have been saying for many years Arsenal need to get a striker. Then we get the striker and people say he\u2019s not good enough.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have to say 21 goals, obviously 12 in the Premier League, says that he\u2019s done the job for us.<\/p>\n \u201cHe did the job for us today and I\u2019m sure against the teams we\u2019ve got coming like West Ham, I think he could probably put in the same kind of performance and probably nick another couple of goals.<\/p>\n \u201cIf he only scores against those kind of teams that\u2019s what Arsenal have always needed.<\/p>\n \u201cThey don\u2019t have problems scoring against the top six, it\u2019s the other teams like the Fulhams and the Wolves and the teams like that we\u2019ve had problems scoring against.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s come in and he\u2019s kind of solved that problem for us.\u201d<\/p>\n Wright was also encouraged by Gyokeres\u2019 link-up play with Bukayo Saka.<\/p>\n He added: \u201cYes, they haven\u2019t played together much unfortunately because of the injuries that we had, but there are relationships that I really enjoyed today.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/div>\nGyokeres has \u2018solved problem\u2019 for Arsenal<\/h2>\n