Goals from Ethan Nwaneri and Bukayo Saka helped us progress to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup with a 2-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion.

Mikel Merino's fine flick helped start a flowing team move, rounded off by Nwaneri early in the first half, before substitute Saka powered in a second of the contest on 76 minutes.

The result marked our 250th match in the tournament's history and set up a showdown with Crystal Palace in the next round.

history makers

History was made before a ball had been kicked as Max Dowman, aged 15 years and 302 days old, was named as our youngest ever player to start a competitive match. A fellow academy product joined him in the attack in the shape of Andre Harriman-Annous, who was making his first appearance for us and became the 924th player to represent the club.

The teenage pair were two of 10 changes made by Mikel Arteta following the win over Crystal Palace. Another was goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga, making his home debut, and the Spaniard was called into action twice in the first 10 minutes, first saving comfortably from Carlos Baleba before denying Georginio Rutter when the forward was one-on-one...