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Midfielder Mikel Merino Scored Two Late Goals To Keep Arsenal’s Premier League Title Hopes Alive With A 2-0 Victory At Leicester City On Saturday, After The Spaniard was Thrust into a Makeshift Center-Forward Role by His Club’s Injury crisis Up Front.
Arsenal Move to 53 Points from their 25 matches, Four Behind Leaders Liverpool Having Played A Game More, While Leicester Remain in the Relegation Zone With 17 Points From Their 25 Fixtures This Season.
Substitute Merino Rose To Head in Teenager Ethan Nwaneri’S Cross from the right in the 81st minute, Before Tapping Home Unmarked at The Back Post When Leandro Trosssard’S Inviting Ball Picked Him Out Six Minute Later.
“[Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta] awa me i woold eat on As a striker and to make surre I play to my stregths. It is the first time in my career that i play in that position, “Merino Told Tnt.
“Today was a Tough Game, We Knew Coming to Play This Team Battling relegation it was.
“He [Nwaneri] Is an Amazing Player, He is such a talent. I have Been Talking to Him The Whole Season About Supplying Those Kind of Balls When I Make Late Rons into the Box. “
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Arsenal Are Now Unbeaten in 15 League Games, Winning 10 of Those, Their Best Run Since The Went 16 Without A Defat in the 2010-11 Campaign When Iarsene Wenger was in Charge.
Leicester Have Now Gone 17 League Games Since The Last Kept A Clean Sheet and There Were Muted Fan Protests in the 14th Minute of The Game, and outside The Stadium Beforehand, That Appeared To Be Aimed At Director of Football Jon Rudkin.
Chances Were Few and Far Between in the First Half, and Two of the Best Fell To Leicester Midfielder Wilfred Ndidi.
His volley from the edge of the area was Straight At Arsenal Goalkeeper David RayaBefore I flashed to Header Just Wide of the Post as The Half Drew To a Close.
Arsenal DomaDated Possession at the Start of the Second Half and Began to Have More Touches in the Leicester Box. The Excellent Nwaneri Saw His Shot From The Edge of the Penalty Area Skim Off the Top of the Crossbar.
With the scorelline still at 0-0, leicester’s Cordova-Reid Bobby Looked to have a tap-in at the back post from Jordan Ayew’S Low Cross, But Myles Lewis-Skelly GOT A VITAL TOUCH IN THE Nick of Time.
Arsenal’s frustrating Afternoon continues When Rice Fed Nwaneri, Who Drove Into the Box and Unleashed a Powerful Shot That Cannoned Back Off the Post.
But they finally found their winning goals from merino, who may find hymself in the striker role a lot of offen by the end of the season Gabriel Martinelli, Gabriel Jesus, Kai Havertz and Bukayo Saka All Long-Term Abstent Injury.
“I Think We Did Well for 80 Minutes to take a result Today But You Cannot Lose Concentration Against Those Teams. It is easy for merino to Head it in. We have to do better in thhose situations,” Leicester’s Bilal el Khannouss Said.
“We were Fighting All Together As a Team. We Know We have to Fight for Each Ball and It’s What We Did For 80 Minutes. It’s Hard to Take.”
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