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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 23668811" data-attributes="member: 158020">Arsenal 3 Brentford 1: Two-goal  Welbeck holds off battling Bees  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1/2018/09/26/20/4570178-0-image-m-16_1537989181923.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Danny Welbeck's double guided a heavily rotated Arsenal to a hard-earned 3-1  win over Brentford and into the fourth round of the EFL Cup.One of nine changes  from the weekend win over Everton, Welbeck was on target twice before a splendid  Alan Judge free-kick set up a tense final half hour at Emirates Stadium.    The Championship side were emboldened and, for a period, pressed hard in  search of an equaliser that ultimately never came, Arsenal stabilising  adequately and eventually sealing Unai Emery's sixth straight victory through  substitute Alexandre Lacazette in stoppage time.  The new Gunners boss is attempting to do something his predecessor  Arsene Wenger never achieved in winning this competition, and the quality of  several passages in between the stern second-half examination will have  delivered belief that is very much a possibility.   The course of the match might have differed had Bernd Leno's puzzlingly poor  touch from a Shkodran Mustafi back-pass not trickled wide of his own net in the  second minute.Instead, Arsenal were ahead moments later as Welbeck rose  unchallenged to emphatically head in Matteo Guendouzi's corner in the fifth  minute.   His second, eight minutes before the interval, capped a sweeping move with  Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Alex Iwobi and the overlapping Nacho Monreal combining to  provide a tap-in.An unexpected twist came when midfielder Judge fizzed a  brilliant free-kick in off the upright and Brentford almost had an equaliser in  quick time, Sergi Canos flashing a shot over the bar.   Penalties remained a possibility right until Lacazette put the seal on  Arsenal's victory with a determined finish three minutes into added time, fellow  substitute Lucas Torreira with the assist.</blockquote>

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