Mikel Merino, the central midfielder deployed as a makeshift striker, was an easy target for criticism and ridicule after a ...

Mikel Merino was Arsenal’s hero in the match against Leicester City, coming off the bench to score twice and help secure a ...

Arteta has also claimed that Nathan Butler-Oyedeji can play as a number nine. He has been on the Arsenal bench in their last ...

Merino scored two goals off the bench as an emergency frontman at Leicester last weekend and comes into the Arsenal team in ...

David Raya and Mikel Merino sat down this week to discuss the latter’s goalscoring ability, keeping clean sheets and more ...

How to watch: Leicester City vs. Brentford will air on USA Network, and can be streamed on fuboTV (free trial). Time: 3 p.m.

Paul Merson expects Mikel Arteta to stick with Raheem Sterling in his starting XI for Arsenal’s ‘must-win’ match against West Ham, despite the forward’s ineffective performance at Leicester.

Merino had that composure to finish from two crosses and was signed partly because of how strong he is in duels, so boss Mikel Arteta was clearly confident he could handle tussling with Leicester ...

Arsenal have been training with different players leading the line and not just midfielder Mikel Merino, manager Mikel Arteta ...

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta will be faced with another difficult choice this weekend of who to play up front amid their injury crisis, after Mikel Merino scored a brace against Leicester last week as a ...

This will still be a hard game for Arsenal, though. I thought Arsenal struggled against Leicester until Mikel Merino scored two very good late goals. ‘West Ham were decent against Chelsea ...

Merino may come into the starting line-up with Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz and Gabriel Jesus all out injured ...