When Viktor Gyökeres fixes you with those piercing blue eyes and that inscrutable look, it is possible to get the wrong impression. “He wants to kill you,” Mikel Arteta said with a smile. “He’s got that eye. When he looks at you, he can look a bit intimidating.”
The Arsenal manager was in relaxed mood as he looked forward to Sunday’s Premier League meeting with Chelsea at the Emirates and not because he almost always seems to get the better of them. At one point, Arteta threw a bottle of water at a journalist who had a frog in his throat as he asked his question; disappointingly, the cap was on. At another, he joked about his press officer’s sprawling mansion in Kent and how jealous he was of him. The pressure of the title race is supposed to be consuming the ultra-intense Arteta. Not on this evidence.
