{"id":7888,"date":"2025-02-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=7888"},"modified":"2025-02-15T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T15:01:58","slug":"arsenal-super-sub-mikel-merino-scores-twice-to-see-off-leicester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/15\/arsenal-super-sub-mikel-merino-scores-twice-to-see-off-leicester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal super sub Mikel Merino scores twice to see off Leicester City"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mikel Merino conjured up two goals inside the last 10 minutes (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mikel Merino came off the bench to save the day for Arsenal<\/a> in a close-fought 2-0 Premier League<\/a> victory at Leicester City on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Arsenal headed into the match without their first-choice front three in what has become an attacking injury crisis and it looked like they were heading for a draw against Ruud van Nistelrooy’s team in the east Midlands.<\/p>\n

But Mikel Arteta’s decision to replace Raheem Sterling with Merino in the 69th minute proved to be a genius decision, as the makeshift striker, who normally plays as a midfielder, scored twice in the last 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

Gunners wonderkid Ethan Nwaneri, arguably the best player on the pitch, provided the assist for Merino’s first with a fine chipped cross from the right wing.<\/p>\n

Leandro Trossard set up Merino for the second to secure a massive three points for injury-hit Arsenal in the Premier League title race, with the second-placed north Londoners now just four points behind Liverpool.<\/p>\n

Here’s how it all unfolded at the King Power Stadium…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mikel Merino conjured up two goals inside the last 10 minutes (Picture: Getty) Mikel Merino came off the bench to save the day for Arsenal in a close-fought 2-0 Premier League victory at Leicester City on Saturday. Arsenal headed into the match without their first-choice front three in what has become an attacking injury crisis…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7891,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7888\/revisions\/7891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}