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MerinoMID

Mikel Merino Zazón · Arsenal · 30 years

Price
£6.0
Owned
1.2%
36th
Pts
67
37th
Pts/£m
11.2
30th
Min %
30%
19th

Shot map

Every shot located, from 2025-26. Own goals are excluded — Understat files them against the defender at his own goal line, which would put 41 dots at the wrong end of the pitch.

Saved Shot · 0.57 xG · 6 m · Right Foot · Set PieceBlocked Shot · 0.11 xG · 9 m · Right Foot · From CornerMissed Shot · 0.07 xG · 8 m · Head · Set PieceBlocked Shot · 0.66 xG · 5 m · Right Foot · Open PlayBlocked Shot · 0.10 xG · 13 m · Left Foot · Open PlaySaved Shot · 0.08 xG · 16 m · Left Foot · Open PlayMissed Shot · 0.05 xG · 9 m · Head · Open PlayMissed Shot · 0.05 xG · 23 m · Left Foot · Open PlayMissed Shot · 0.56 xG · 7 m · Right Foot · Open PlayBlocked Shot · 0.06 xG · 15 m · Left Foot · Open PlayMissed Shot · 0.01 xG · 60 m · Left Foot · Open PlayBlocked Shot · 0.08 xG · 16 m · Left Foot · Open PlaySaved Shot · 0.03 xG · 26 m · Left Foot · Open PlayBlocked Shot · 0.02 xG · 10 m · Head · From CornerMissed Shot · 0.33 xG · 8 m · Head · Set PieceMissed Shot · 0.04 xG · 10 m · Head · Set PieceSaved Shot · 0.06 xG · 19 m · Left Foot · Open PlayMissed Shot · 0.67 xG · 6 m · Left Foot · Open PlayGoal · 0.03 xG · 10 m · Head · From CornerGoal · 0.54 xG · 5 m · Head · Open PlayGoal · 0.43 xG · 8 m · Head · Open PlayGoal · 0.68 xG · 3 m · Right Foot · From Corner
Shots22
Goals4
Total xG5.22
xG per shot0.237
Inside the box82%
Mean distance13.2 m

Circle area is xG. Filled means it went in. Hover a shot for the detail — the goal is along the top edge.

Rates

Per 90 minutes over 2025-26. The bar under each figure is where it ranks among MIDs with a reliable Premier League sample — the raw rate on its own says very little, and the comparison is within position because a centre-back's xGI against forwards is meaningless.

Strongest on big chances (100th percentile among 144 MIDs) and aerial threat (99th). Weakest on chance creation (54th).

Pts/90
5.89
93rd
xGI/90
0.423
84th
xG/90
0.295
88th
xA/90
0.127
54th
BPS/90
20.7
83rd
DC/90
9.9
74th
Sh/90
1.93
71st
Box/90
1.58
89th
Big/90
0.70
100th
npxG/90
0.459
99th
Head xG/90
0.134
99th
xGB/90
0.34
77th
G−xG
+0.6

Next six

Coloured by the half of the fixture that matters for a MID: the goals.

GW1COV2.43 xG for the side · 89% to win
GW2avl1.44 xG for the side · 51% to win
GW3CHE1.98 xG for the side · 75% to win
GW4sun1.79 xG for the side · 75% to win
GW5bha1.58 xG for the side · 62% to win
GW6LEE2.06 xG for the side · 79% to win

Career

Read from FPL's own history rather than the current-season aggregate: the two disagree for loan and transfer cases, and history is the one that is right. Expected stats are zero before 2022-23 because Opta data does not go back further.

SeasonMinsPtsPts/90GAxGxACSBonus
2025-261,024675.89433.361.4545
2024-251,575925.26725.751.1848
2018-1900—000.000.0000
2017-181,337493.30110.000.0034

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