Mikel Arteta marked his 250th game in charge of us with the victory he desired as Bukayo Saka, Thomas Partey and a first Premier League goal for Ethan Nwaneri comfortably beat Nottingham Forest.
Just as he did last season in this fixture, Saka scored a stunner to get us rolling on 14 minutes, and six minutes after being introduced as a half-time sub, Partey blasted in from 25 yards to double our lead.
Nwaneri was brought off the bench with nine minutes to go and swiftly found the target to round off an excellent victory, which saw us become just the second side in English top-flight history to reach 2,000 wins, but, more importantly, end a run of four league games without success as we aim to catch the leaders across the all-important winter fixtures.