Mikel Merino has Fellaini traits - Arteta - video Dailymotion

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta compared Mikel Merino to Marouane Fellaini after his brace against Leicester City

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00:00Well, I think the game started to suit him more because they started to defend much more

00:05deeper and we had more momentum, more sequences, more set-pieces as well in that period and

00:10we believed that he could impact the game. We were lucky that he did it.

00:15Did you think back to your team-mate Maradona? It seemed like a very similar thing.

00:21I didn't think about him, to be fair, but Mikel has got that. It's a goal threat because

00:26he can smell danger, he can anticipate the action, he's got really good timing to arrive

00:33to certain areas and then obviously he has the capacity to execute with a lot of part

00:37of his body. He needed the delivery, he certainly had that as well and he put it in the back

00:43of the net.