A win, another clean sheet and two goals from Hale End graduates, there was plenty for Mikel Arteta to be pleased about in our 2-0 victory over Brighton in the Carabao Cup.

Ethan Nwaneri opened the scoring before Bukayo Saka helped seal our passage into the last eight of the competition.

The game saw Max Dowman and Andre Harriman-Annous make their first starts for us and reflecting on the victory, Mikel was delighted with the win in N5.

"A beautiful evening for many reasons," our manager said. "We are in the quarterfinals of the competition. We changed a lot of players today. We played players I never played before together against a very strong Premier League team. 

"We had two debuts as a starter with Max and with Andre as well - I think everybody feels very, very proud of what they've done, the way they have responded to this huge challenge at their age and the fact that we won the game."

Mikel made 10 changes for the contest, including a new centre-back pairing of Piero Hincapie, making his first start for us, and Cristhian Mosquera. The duo helped us to a sixth straight clean sheet...