Arsene Wenger celebrated 21 years as manager of Arsenal with a piece-of-cake victory and a new name for his ever-increasing list of Premier League victims.
Wenger has now beaten 45 different teams in the competition — one more than Sir Alex Ferguson — and, in truth, Brighton did not offer too much resistance.
Nacho Monreal and Alex Iwobi scored the goals and three points eased Arsenal further from the wreckage of a crushing defeat at Liverpool and accompanying prophecy of doom, which prefaced last month’s break for international football.
‘Our last international break was a nightmare,’ said Wenger.