Arsenal moved into the Carabao Cup quarter-finals on a proud night for their academy as Ethan Nwaneri and Bukayo Saka's goals secured a 2-0 win over Brighton at the Emirates Stadium.

Nwaneri tucked home from fellow Hale End graduate Myles Lewis-Skelly's pass on a night when Max Dowman became the youngest starter in Arsenal's history aged 15 and 302 days old.

Mikel Arteta also handed a first start to 17-year-old striker Andre Harriman-Annous, who had a hand in the second goal when his one-on-one effort was saved by Brighton's Jason Steele and fell to academy talisman Saka to make the result safe.

The win makes it eight consecutive wins and six consecutive clean sheets for Arsenal but it might have been a different story had the visitors taken their chances in the first half.

Georginio Rutter was denied by Kepa, one of 10 Arsenal changes on the night, and Stefanos Tzimas fired another big chance wide, with Jan Paul van Hecke also missing a glaring opportunity when he headed past the post from a few yards out at a corner.

Brighton finished the game having had 18 shots, the most by any side against Arsenal since Manchester United on the opening day...