Gyökeres had not scored a goal since September 13 when he scored a goal in Arsenal's 3–0 win over Nottingham. Since then, Gyökeres had played nine matches in his league-leading club team and in the national team without scoring a goal.
Now he has struck in the Champions League as well.
When Arsenal took their third straight win, it really took off.
The London team scored four goals in 13 minutes in the second half and Gyökeres scored the home team's third and fourth goals.
First, he scored 3–0 from close range in the 67th minute and just three minutes later, he kneed in 4–0 after a corner.
He was asked if he was more pleased with his second goal since he celebrated more after it.
No, both were good. I was not sure if it was offside after the first one, so it may have been why, says Gyökeres, who received the award as the match's best player.
Big smile
After the 3–0 goal, he finally got to do his world-famous goal gesture and the Swede cracked a big smile.
When he left the pitch in the 83rd minute, he received a standing ovation from the Arsenal supporters.
Before Viktor Gyökeres' goal show began, Gabriel had headed in 1–0 in the 57th minute after a perfect free kick from Declan Rice, and Gabriel Martinelli increased it to 2–0 seven minutes later with his third goal in three CL matches.
Arsenal had a shot off the crossbar already in the match start from Eberechi Eze on a shot that was deflected by a Madrid player.
But Atletico was not harmless. Julián Alvarez missed an open goal after Arsenal goalkeeper David Raya had been on a strange excursion before the break, and then he had a shot off the crossbar directly in the second half.
Three on full pot
Arsenal is one of three teams that stand on full pot, nine points, of the teams that have played three matches, but starting to talk about the title yet, Gyökeres does not want to.
We always want to win our matches, but it's a long way to go and it may be a boring answer, but we take one match at a time, he says.
Reigning champion Paris Saint-Germain crushed Bayer Leverkusen on the away ground and won with a whole 7–2. 20-year-old Désiré Doué scored a hat-trick.
Inter beat Belgian Union SG 4–0 on the away ground.
FC Copenhagen suffered their second loss in their first three matches at home against Borussia Dortmund, who won 4–2.
FCK, who have one point, had 1–1 until the 61st minute when Ramy Bensebaini could make it 2–1 for Dortmund on a penalty.
Both Jordan Larsson and Viktor Claesson started for FCK and Daniel Svensson for Dortmund.
