Wenger anticipates more from youth

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Wenger named a side with an average age of just 19 on Tuesday night - and was not disappointed as the youngsters ran riot in a 6-0 thrashing of Coca-Cola Championship side Sheffield United at Emirates Stadium.

"I was not surprised because I see them every day, but you never know on a big stage how they play," he said. "They did that with the belief we want them to have and the spirit we want them to have."

Wenger added: "Now for us the biggest challenge is to keep them together and slowly integrate them into the first team. Some have done that already.

"When you are under immense pressure to buy in every transfer window, you know that you have these players behind and it would be killing the work we have done."

Wenger maintained there was no reason why the young Gunners could not go all the way to Wembley, having reached the final in 2007 and losing in the semis last season.

"We want to win the trophy this season, why not?" he declared.

"The only pressure you have is that when you go through the rounds towards the semi-finals, everybody says, 'Now you have to change all these players'.

"So what do you do? Let them play like they have tonight and then say, 'Sorry, you do not play anymore'. For me, that is not serious."