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

Arsenal could make two key changes ahead of their Premier League clash with Nottingham Forest with chances for Ben White and ...

Arsenal head coach Mikel Arteta refused to rule out using Mikel Merino once again as a centre-forward following the Spaniard’s heroics last weekend against Leicester City. Injuries to several key ...

Merino shone in Arsenal’s 2-0 victory at the King Power Stadium, scoring both goals after coming off the bench with just over 20 minutes to go. The dilemma for Mikel Arteta now is whether he starts ...

Mikel Merino has one hell of a story to tell years ... This brings me back to Merino and his own brace in Arsenal’s 2-0 win at Leicester last weekend. They had already been using Kai Havertz ...

Analysing the Spaniard's superb performance off the bench against Leicester as a makeshift attacker for Mikel Arteta's injury-hit side ...

Arsenal match winner Mikel Merino has admitted it was a surprise to come on as a striker against Leicester City having never played in the position before.

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 ...

Arsenal match winner Mikel Merino has admitted he was surprised to come on as a striker against Leicester City having never played in the position before, but was hailed as a "real goal threat" by ...

Mikel Arteta's experiment with playing Mikel Merino up front paid off as the makeshift forward netted a quickfire double off the bench to guide Arsenal to a 2-0 win against Leicester City at the ...

Chris Sutton explains why Mikel Merino cannot be tasked with leading the line for Arsenal regularly - but he doesn't mind if ...