Jack cracks Swansea resistance

Arsenal 1 Swansea 0

The Swans have only to avoid a defeat at home to Chelsea next week to book a place in the Capital One Cup final against the eminently beatable Aston Villa or Bradford City. Arsenal, adrift in the Premier League and long-shots in the Champions League, now travel to Brighton in the fourth round of a competition that was always going to be their most likely route to success.

Yet with Wilshere, revelling in an attacking central role, in this kind of form they can at least believe the drought might just come to an end.