Viktor Gyokeres has been in stunning goal-scoring form for Sporting (Picture: via Getty Images)
Victory Gyokeres has had plenty of opportunities to show off his unique goal celebration at Sporting, but what is the inspiration behind it?
The 26-year-old has been in incredibly good form for Sporting since joining from Coventry City last year, becoming one of the hottest strikers in world football.
The Sweden international scored 43 goals in 50 games in his first season with Sporting and has shown no signs of slowing down, with 23 in 17 matches over this campaign.
The latest three of those goals came in an amazing 4-1 win for Sporting over Manchester City in the Champions League, which has got Manchester United fans very excited about manager Ruben Amorim arriving from the Portuguese side.
Gyokeres is staying in Lisbon, for now, where we can expect to see a lot more of his goal celebration over the rest of the campaign.
After finding the back of the net the prolific forward interlocks the fingers on both hands and places his palms on his face, across his mouth.
The Sporting star has not said a huge amount about why he does this, but he has given one huge clue as to the inspiration of the celebration.
Gyokeres posted a compilation of goals and celebrations on Instagram in June, which had the caption: ‘Nobody cared until I put on the mask ????’
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The line is a slight misquote from the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, when the villain Bane says: ‘It doesn’t matter who we are, what matters is our plan. No one cared who I was till I put on the mask.’
It’s unlikely that Gyokeres is paying a tribute to Bane because he intends to blow up a city with a massive bomb, but you simply never know.
Tom Hardy playing Bane in The Dark Knight Rises (Picture: Getty Images)
The forward has not just started showing off the celebration in Portugal, having done the Bane move in his Coventy days and for Sweden.
It was his performances for the Sky Blues that earned him the big move to Sporting, having scored 40 goals in 97 appearances for the Championship side.
He has now scored 10 in 24 caps for Sweden as well.
Gyokeres showed off his goal celebration during his spell with Coventry City (Picture: Getty Images)
Gyokeres celebrating a goal for Sweden earlier this year (Picture: Getty Images)
Unsurprisingly he is now being linked with another big move to a string of European giants, including Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and of course Manchester United.
His current manager is set to take over at Old Trafford on Monday, but Amorim has told the Swede to stay put, at least until the end of the season.
‘I’ve just made peace with the Sporting fans, I’m not even going to make a joke about it,’ Amorim said when asked about his striker after the Man City win.
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Source:: Metro
