It's an excellent time to be an Arsenal fan at the moment.
Mikel Arteta's side are four for four in the Champions League, through to the next round in the League Cup and top of the Premier League.
However, the North Londoners still have their problems, such as the growing number of injuries.
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Moreover, Arteta now has to make do without summer signing Viktor Gyokeres, although the good news is that he has a solution in Arsenal's best finisher since Robin van Persie.
Arsenal's solutions to Gyokeres' injruy
With Kai Havertz still out and Gabriel Jesus only just returning to first-team training, Arteta can get a little creative with his Gyokeres replacement.
One option could be moving Leandro Trossard into the middle, as, unlike last season, he seems to be getting back to his dangerous best.
In fact, the Belgian international has already amassed an impressive tally of three goals and four assists for the side in 13 appearances.
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Moreover, while the 30-year-old is primarily a winger, he's no stranger to playing up top, having done so 49 times across his career.
However, should the manager wish to keep Trossard on the right, he could go with an even bolder choice: starting Ethan Nwaneri up top.
After all, only last season he told the press that the youngster "can play as a right winger and there is another position I think he can develop into - No9."
Moreover, with an impressive tally of nine goals and two assists in just 1378 minutes last season, the teenager clearly has an eye for goal that's hard to teach.
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However, while Trossard and Nwaneri would probably do a fine job leading the line for a game, there is another player Arteta will almost certainly turn to, a player who could be looked at as Arsenal's best finisher since Van Persie.
Arsenal's best finisher
While he does have a few options at his disposal, it seems almost certain that Arteta will opt to play Mikel Merino up top against Sunderland.
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After all, over the last year or so, the Spaniard has put forward a very good case for him being the club's best finisher since Van Persie.
Now, that is not to say that he's been the best centre-forward since the Dutchman, as he hasn't and wouldn't even claim to be one.
However, his quality of finishing is superb, and his utterly outrageous catalogue of goals proves as much.
For example, in his very first game as the side's striker, against Leicester City last season, he scored an excellent header and another one-touch finish into the bottom corner.
Then, at home to Real Madrid in the Champions League, he once again scored a sensational one-touch goal, but this time from the edge of the penalty area.
In fact, when looking back on the goals he has scored for the club, it becomes apparent that he's at his very best when he has less time to think and has to finish with a single touch.
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Fortunately for him and the rest of the team, he is something of a "magnet in the box," per Arsenal writer Adam Keys, and so he often has just one opportunity to bury a chance.
Ultimately, it might sound hyperbolic, and Arteta won't want him playing up top for much longer, but it's hard to deny that Merino currently looks like Arsenal's best finisher since Van Persie.