Merino: “Let’s keep the momentum and tempo”

Mikel Merino warming upMikel Merino says Saturday’s visit of Brentford represents a great opportunity to build on Tuesday’s fantastic performance against Real Madrid and take a positive result into next week’s second leg.

Previewing this weekend’s Premier League meeting at Emirates Stadium, our goalscoring Spaniard said: “Yes, it's really important to have the momentum to use the energy that we created the other day in the Emirates to keep going and just give the fans another great performance, get the three points and obviously keep the momentum and the tempo for the future games.

“But obviously, really, really focus on Brentford because they are a really tough opponent with a lot of…