Mikel Merino
MID🇪🇸30 years old·born 22 Jun 1996
189 cm · 83 kg · born Pamplona, Spain
Rank #49·419 matches tracked
Playing style
Ball-winnerNon-pen goals /90
0.15
67th pct
Assists /90
0.13
61st pct
Key passes /90
1.03
47th pct
Passes /90
44.17
68th pct
Tackles + int. /90
3.40
79th pct
Dribbles /90
1.55
39th pct
Latest· 18 Oct 2026
24' vs Nottingham Forest — a strong performance.
Nottingham Forest 0–1 Arsenal (win) · Rating 7.13 · Elo +2 · 22 passes · 3/4 duels
Form — EAR = Elo Above Replacement, football's version of baseball's WAR (Wins Above Replacement). Every rated match scores a player against the average performance for their position: better adds to EAR, worse subtracts. EAR180 adds up the last 180 days (current form); EAR career adds up every rated match. Our predictions add EAR180 to a player's Elo, about 37 Elo points per EAR point. Each bar is the EAR180 going into that match: green above the position average, red below. A gap means no rated match in that window. (180 days)
Opponents
Their Elo change in matches against him (at least 3 meetings).
Favourite opponents
−124T. Courtois2502
in 11 matches · Belgium
−86Dani Rodríguez1437
in 11 matches · Mallorca
−83Joaquín713
in 11 matches · Real Betis
−74L. Modrić1923
in 15 matches · Croatia
−73A. Espino1953
in 6 matches · Cadiz
Nemeses
+128Hugo Duro2067
in 7 matches · Valencia
+118M. Kerkez2483
in 3 matches · Liverpool
+113Kepa2385
in 4 matches · Bournemouth
+112A. Garnacho2386
in 8 matches · Aston Villa
+111I. Zabarnyi2390
in 3 matches · Bournemouth
Coaches
Their Elo change in matches against him (at least 3 meetings).
Favourite coaches
- −55
M. Pellegrino1863
in 5 matches · Cadiz
- −54
Arrasate2022
in 10 matches · Osasuna
- −41
Álvaro1720
in 3 matches · Cadiz
- −34
Vicente Moreno2042
in 3 matches · Espanyol
- −30
Mendilibar2153
in 8 matches · Olympiakos Piraeus
Nemesis coaches
- +62
Marcelino2218
in 7 matches · Villarreal
- +57
Xavi2417
in 5 matches · Barcelona
- +56
Rubén Baraja1932
in 3 matches · Valencia
- +40
Luis Enrique2523
in 5 matches · Paris Saint Germain
- +39
Ronald Koeman2232
in 6 matches · Netherlands
Style radar
On-ball style vs same-position, same-league peers (0 = average for the role).
Career history
- 2024Real Sociedad→Arsenal€ 32M
- 2018Newcastle→Real Sociedad€ 12M
- 2018Borussia Dortmund→Newcastle€ 7M
- 2017Borussia Dortmund→NewcastleLoan
- 2016Osasuna→Borussia Dortmund€ 3.8M