#Arsenal beat #Sunderland in what was a fun Carabao Cup tie at the Emirates Stadium. #Nketiah gets his first hat-trick for the first team while there were good performances from nearly everyone. The Gunners fielded a much-changed 11 and this was a good thing for Mikel Arteta's squad players who had been starving for minutes this season due to Arsenal's lack of mid-week (European) competition this season. It was clear in the first half that these players had not played much for a while. They got better as the game went on and this will hopefully help Arsenal during their time of need as the fixtures get more difficult schedule-wise. Arsenal will be playing two games in less than 48 hours on the 26th and the 28th so they will need every fit player contributing to the cause in the next 10 days or so.