Arsenal found an alternative way of fixing their striking crisis, in the short term anyway. Mikel Merino came on up front as a sub with 21 minutes to go against Leicester and promptly notched a brace, making the hardest thing in the game to do, actually scoring goals, look stunningly easy. Three of his five Premier League goals so far have been headers and he scored a few when at Real Sociedad too, so there is a little of the “big man up front” somewhere in his DNA.