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My goodness, what a display by Viktor Gyökeres!
It has been a long time since you saw a Swede score four goals.
Now the successful striker can become bigger than Henrik Larsson and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the Swedish national team shirt.
This is a comment. The opinions are the writer’s own.
Yes, I know it was Azerbaijan in a meaningless Nations League game. But Viktor Gyökeres complete great success in the Swedish national team is something in the horse’s way.
Gyökere’s success
It is impossible to stop marveling at the Swedish smash hit from Hägersten, which has taken the whole world by storm in the past year. On Wednesday evening, a total of FOUR goals came from Gyökeres and that adds up to an incredible goal score.
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In 2024, the goal machine has so far scored a staggering 58 goals in 54 matches and is the most dangerous striker in the entire world right now. If you look at this season alone, Gyökeres has scored an incredible 32 goals in both club and national team.
Chasing the goal record
The 26-year-old also wins the top scorer in the entire Nations League, ahead of a certain Erling Haaland from Norway. It is so incredibly impressive and now you have to start comparing him with Sweden’s best striker of all time.
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Viktor Gyökeres has now scored 15 goals in 26 international matches in the blue-and-yellow national team shirt, although it is some way up Zlatan Ibrahimovic at the top with 62 national team goals. But he has also played 100 more international matches and continued his football career past his 40th birthday.
Henke and Zlatan
Gyökeres, who is a “late bloomer”, can have at least 10 more good years in Blågult and if he continues at this rate, the men’s national team’s goal record is not far off. He is already starting to approach greats such as Martin Dahlin (29 goals), Kenneth Andersson (31 goals) and Henrik Larsson (37 goals).
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But in order to be mentioned among the very greatest Swedish national team strikers of all time, it is necessary to score goals in the important matches. Like pushing Sweden to the European Championship and World Cup finals and becoming a blue-and-yellow national hero against the biggest soccer nations. And that is Viktor Gyökere’s very last step to reach the absolute top of the world, he is very well on his way there.
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