A frantic pace was set right from the kick-off as Karlo Ziger, our goalkeeper, made two excellent saves before starting the counter-attacking move that broke the deadlock. Thierno Ballo was the goalscorer, the new signing poking home from close range, before Clinton Mola doubled our lead early in the second half.

Arsenal’s threat was difficult to contain at times and they found a way back into the game with 20 minutes remaining as Folarin Balogun’s header beat Ziger, though Andy Myers’s side had the right response and sealed the points with a neat third goal that was thundered into the top corner by Ian Maatsen.

Myers made five changes from last weekend’s defeat at Tottenham and shifted to a 3-4-2-1 shape, with Ballo and Marcel Lewis deployed in support of striker George Nunn. Dynel Simeu, Jack Wakely and Sam McClelland lined up across the back three, the latter making his debut following a summer move from Northern Ireland, while Maatsen and Tino Livramento started at wing-back.