THIS WAY<\/a>Enter your email and hit Subscribe.<\/p>\nMikel Merino scored for Spain against Czechia in the latest statement of intent for his manager, just a few days after Viktor Gyokeres broke a UEFA record.<\/p>\n
Both men have had to wait for their opportunities this season, but the injury to Havertz, if he isn’t fit to face Leeds United, could hand them a chance to impress.<\/p>\n
Merino came off the bench to score Spain’s third goal of the evening in their 3-1 win over Czechia. Tempers flared late on as Stepan Chaloupek wiped out Roberto Fernandez with a dangerous tackle, but play was allowed to continue.<\/p>\n
Victor Munoz forced Antonin Kinsky into a save, but the rebound fell to Merino who fired into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
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Mikel Merino scored for Spain in their 3-1 win over Czechia. (Image: (Photo by Ibai Tudanca\/Quality Sport Images\/Getty Images))<\/p>\n
Fellow Arsenal star Gyokeres also scored while on international duty for Sweden, breaking the deadlock in their 1-1 draw with Bosnia.<\/p>\n
The Arsenal forward scored on the hour mark before Kerim Alajbegovic levelled for Bosnia, with the Nations League Group B4 encounter ending all square.<\/p>\n
The goal from Gyokeres means he has now netted in both of Sweden’s matches during the international break, having also got on the scoresheet in victories over Romania and Poland.<\/p>\n
Gyokeres’ strike against Bosnia saw him etch his name into the record books, becoming the first player ever to score in six successive Nations League appearances.<\/p>\n
The Gunners talisman had previously bagged four goals against Azerbaijan back in November 2024, and had also scored in the two preceding matches against Estonia and Slovakia.<\/p>\n
Gyokeres will have the chance to extend his remarkable record when Sweden face Romania on Monday evening in Bucharest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arsenal fell off the summit of the Premier League following a defeat to Brighton before the international break…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[220,218,2119,101,56,54,55,321],"class_list":["post-792418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-football","tag-mikel-arteta","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-viktor-gyokeres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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