Arsenal was not lucky enough during this season and they recently lost their player Mikel Merino who he joined this team just a few days ago. Mikel Merino was the player Arteta wanted to hire him and he tried to get Mikel Merino ready for the games in this season.
He left Real Sociedad and started playing for Arsenal to have the chance to play in strong teams. But in the first training session in Arsenal, he got injured and it seems Merino's going to be out for 2 months.

I don't know what happened to Merino at this time but I hope his fate will not be like Timber last season who had to be absent for quite a long time due to injury even though he had just been recruited from ajax, Losing Merino of course will be big blow for Arsenal at this time and will clearly affect their performance in the next match, Merino still hasn't played his debut match but he suffered an injury when Declan Rice also received a red card and had to miss several Arsenal matches, so this will of course make Arteta a little confused, especially since they only have Jorginho as a midfield backup except Maybe Arteta will plot Zincenko as DM or CM as a precaution, Merino injury and Declan Rice absence will clearly be a loss for Arsenal and this will be a challenge for Arteta to be able to maintain their consistency in the next match.
