Defender TJ Eyoma, captaining the side for the first time, and midfielder Jack Roles rose to score a brace of headers as we surged into the lead inside 26 minutes at the Gunners’ Colney training centre.
Goalkeeper Alfie Whiteman pulled off a series of good stops as the hosts pinned us in for a spell in the second half, but it was only a long-range thunderbolt from Josh Da Silva that breached our resistance.
We never really looked in danger of conceding for a second time, while substitute Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Velasco could have restored our two-goal cushion on the counter-attack towards the end, only to be denied by Joseph Olowu’s covering challenge.