{"id":447746,"date":"2026-02-01T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447746\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:28:14","slug":"mikel-merino-arsenal-concern-over-midfielders-foot-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447746\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Merino: Arsenal concern over midfielder&#8217;s foot injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/arsenal\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> fear midfielder Mikel Merino is set for a sustained spell on the sidelines amid concerns he has suffered a serious foot injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old Spain international missed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/czdq2p00d1et\" class=\"ssrcss-ckhpdl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday&#8217;s win over Leeds<\/a> with manager Mikel Arteta saying the midfielder would see a specialist to determine a full prognosis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exact details of the injury will be confirmed over the next 48 hours but there are concerns Merino will be out for a number of weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arteta will be hoping for good news on Merino&#8217;s absence in the coming days with his side facing crucial matches as they continue to compete in four competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Merino, who joined from Real Sociedad in August 2024, has proved an important player this season, scoring six goals across all competitions for the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on Saturday, Arteta said: &#8220;He&#8217;s got an issue in his foot. It&#8217;s a bone that&#8217;s giving him some pain, and we have some exams, we need some more specialists to look at it and to see how long he will be out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal fear midfielder Mikel Merino is set for a sustained spell on the sidelines amid concerns he has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-447746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}