“Arteta is a complete coach, took the best guardiola”

Less than a goalkeeper, to Mikel Merino (Pamplona, ​​1996) You can ask you to play in any position. In all of this is well. The latter, became and that was at the center striker, an ‘invention’ of Arteta derived from a plague of injuries. Hunger stimulates the intellect of creation, they say. That’s why this Tuesday, in the first leg of the Champions League before the Real MadridThe Navarro’s player, who lives in his first time in London, will be the leader of the leader of Arsenal. And days before, he had the kindness of exclusively to attend a small national media group with it was Mundo Deportivo.

What is the most needed for your paper team as a striker: Unchecking, which endures the ball behind your back …?

“In my opinion, the same striker and from any other position we play in a way in which everyone is involved and that each one has to respect some principles based on the positions of the classmates. Strikers, along with the qualities I have to try to be a threat to the place, go down when I have to get down to receive and be aware of my colleagues”

This has been your first international Dortmund experience for 9 years and now you are no longer home, how can you help with that experience?

“On a personal level I manage it in the best way. With each change of winds there are moments of adaptation and things other than those of you. Then you have to get out of your comfort zone and do things that are uncomfortable but throw away. But these people in Germany as in England have come because now the experience has become positive.

You have been Arsenal fans since I was little, what memories do you have from the 2006 tie? Can you be ‘Henry’ this year?

“(Laughs) Like Henry, of course I don’t see myself. We take it in the middle because like Henry I don’t think that many people but yes, it’s a tie against Real Madrid after so much time and that is a historical moment for the club. There are so good memories of that and that’s why it’s eager to try to repeat it and win a good rival.

Are you surprised at this new striker paper?

“Yes, well. It was a bit surprise for me to be able to do and to contribute to the team on the scoring facet often. This is something I have always been inside and I think I may explode in my career but I haven’t done it yet but I don’t know what extent my coach is.

Your partner now is Odegaard like Silva’s previous one, what relationship do you see between them?

“Well, these are almost the same positions. The player with a good hike, associated with the students … and then the profiles of the players are different at the level of technical details and so on. I remember when I was in the real one and Martin left I put a post on Instagram to say goodbye to him because of me he and I have been a very important player and a player

You know Bernabéu but not in champions, have you talked to your teammates about things going on in the remoked stadium and so on?

“Recently I haven’t had a lot of conversations about that style. When we find out that we will deal with Yes we talk but nothing is too effective or too tactical. Yes it is true that this is something that exists, that they maintain illusion, strength and hope to the end and it is something to praise.

How was these first months with Arteta? How is it as a coach?

“It was a very nice year. I was seeing things I had never worked with my career and also served me to find out from football and grew up. The artet was a complete coach, took the best guardiola and looked at the day -to -day stage he had with him. The idea was to be a dominant team, carrying the weight of the game and not leaving the rivalry.

When then then, you need to deduct Gabriel’s disappearance, how can you affect the tie?

“Well, I think it will affect us and condition the same thing that has done the whole time. We have become a very complicated year of injuries where many teams of the team have had a long casualty but if something good is with this template we are ready for what’s before.

Both Atlético and Manchester City have tried to defend themselves with a ball against Madrid. You are more aggressive, how do you do it?

“It depends a lot on the situation where the game is located and how physical we are. One of the principles of this group is to adapt to the environment and the context of the game. Of course the thinking is to win but football, many times, is different. You will not always have the situations you want. We will see how the game develops and depending on that we will act.”

Arsenal didn’t win a premier but Arteta is very serious, how is the team’s desire and frustration at this time?

“For me this is the first time I am in an atmosphere where all the titles are chasing and that we are talking about them. It’s something done to win, not in seconds. We do not define that. It is something that is very phrapering and consisting of demanding. And that failure often needs to be used as fuel to continue to try again.

And from strikers to strikers, how do you see Real Madrid strikers?

“Not much to say about the squad that this group has. I think they have an incredible level. They are all incompatible players -they are technical quality and the beginning of the season can cost them a little to suit between them but they manage the connection that players of their level will find yes or yes.

If you have to choose a Madrid player you admire and to whom do I enjoy playing …?

“Saying just one name … You put me in a Brete (laughter). They are all amazing -WISE. At the times I play against them, a player who wants to have as colleagues will be Rodrygo. I think he’s a player, I wouldn’t say that he didn’t get bored because everyone knew the good level he had but it had a great potential.