Arsenal manager Arteta delighted with Nelson, Smith Rowe for victory over Luton

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was happy that he could adjust his line-up and still win.

The Gunners head coach knew that the five changes he made to the team were risky.

However, the likes of Reiss Nelson, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Thomas Partey, Leandro Trossard and man of the match Emile Smith Rowe all contributed to a 2-0 success over Luton Town.

On his reasoning for so many changes, he said: We made five changes for players that fully deserved to play, because they give me the right reasons every day to do so. They have to be used and I think they had a really good impact on the team.

Emile had an impact for sure, and Reiss as well. Alex had some really good moments, Thomas had his first start since August, that is unbelievable. Leo comes into the team and he makes an impact. It's really important because now they're physically better, mentally better, they are confident and they are ready to go.

There are always questions if it's only half of the team and in the end, we'll be judged on what we do and whether it's right or wrong because of the result. We should not do that, we should do it because they fully deserve it regardless of if we win, draw or lose. Today they gave us a reason that we have to trust them.

They started really strong, generated a lot of momentum in the first half and some big chances, and scored two great goals. In the second half, we lacked a little bit more composure and simplicity in our play to be more dominant and avoid those transitions, but overall, we made the changes, we won the game, clean sheet and we go again."