We saw our Carabao Cup campaign end at the third-round stage as Brighton & Hove Albion ended our 12-match winning run at Emirates Stadium.
Things began promisingly enough when Eddie Nketiah gave us the lead after 20 minutes, but that was swiftly cancelled out by a Danny Welbeck penalty before Kaoru Mitoma flipped the contest around 12 minutes into the second half.
With 19 minutes remaining, Tariq Lamptey added a third for the impressive Seagulls, who had been the previous side to beat us on home turf back in April.
Gunners present and past on target
The opening exchanges saw Roberto De Zerbi’s team twice fire narrowly into the North Bank in quick succession when Jeremy Sarmiento and Julio Enciso both cut inside and let fly, but couldn’t trouble Karl Hein, making his Gunners first-team bow.