Two more Sweden caps, two more Sweden goals. The Premier League number that will stay with Mikel Arteta through the international break is still nil.

Viktor Gyokeres converted penalties in the 11th minute and in first-half stoppage time at the Strawberry Arena in Solna on Saturday, carrying his country into Nations League A for the first time since the 2020-21 edition. The final whistle locked in a small piece of history: no player had ever scored in eight straight Nations League matches before, as Complete Sports noted.

The Sweden striker now has 12 goals across that streak and 16 in the Nations League overall, a tally bettered only by Erling Haaland, who sits on 23. His international record stands at 27 goals in 42 caps.

For Sweden, everything runs through him. For Arsenal, he has started a single Premier League match this season.

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The split in the numbers

The contrast between the two versions of Gyokeres is doing most of the talking.

At Arsenal he has played 181 minutes of Premier League football across seven appearances in 2026/27, six of them from the bench, and has not scored, as reported by Sports Mole. In all competitions he has managed two goals in 14 matches. His most recent top-flight outing was a 27-minute cameo in the 1-0 win over Hull City on 7 November.

Arteta has used Kai Havertz as his first-choice centre-forward through the opening months of a title defence. Gyokeres, Arsenal’s leading Premier League scorer last season with 14 goals as the club ended its long wait for the title, has slipped down the order rather than out of it.

Gyokeres claims both spot-kicks

The penalties on Saturday went to the same player partly by design.

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“I felt like I wanted to take the penalty this time,” Gyokeres told Daily Cannon. “We usually split them up and we have done that in a few games before. We will do that in the future as well.”

Daniel Svensson had opened the scoring inside five minutes. Bosnia pulled two back after the break through Armin Gigović on 47 minutes and Sead Kolašinac from a corner on 62, but the damage was done before half-time.

Sweden back among the elite

Promotion to League A ends a half-decade in the second tier. Graham Potter, appointed Sweden head coach on 20 October 2025, has his team back among Europe’s top sixteen a year into the job.

Sweden still have one Group B4 match to play, away in Poland on Tuesday, but the promotion place is already secured regardless of that result.

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