{"id":199313,"date":"2025-12-18T01:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199313"},"modified":"2025-12-18T01:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T01:32:27","slug":"epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199313","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Why Arteta trusts Merino over Gyokeres in big games \u2013 Walcott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal forward, Theo Walcott, has suggested why manager Mikel Arteta trusts Mikel Merino over Viktor Gyokeres in big games. Walcott spoke after Arsenal\u2019s Premier League London derby 1-1 draw against Chelsea on Sunday. Recall that Arteta opted to start Merino in Arsenal\u2019s attack ahead of Gyokeres at Stamford Bridge&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/11\/30\/epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Arsenal forward, Theo Walcott, has suggested why manager Mikel Arteta trusts Mikel Merino over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott.jpg",1200,675,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-768x432.jpg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-1024x576.jpg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott.jpg",1200,675,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott.jpg",1200,675,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199313-epl-why-arteta-trusts-merino-over-gyokeres-in-big-games-walcott-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}