Danny Welbeck played for an hour of Arsenal's Under-21 encounter with Brighton on Friday afternoon having been out for almost 10 months with a knee injury.

Talking about the striker's return ahead of the game, boss Arsene Wenger said he hopes to have Welbeck back in first-team contention in as little as three weeks

"I believe that he needs to play two or three games before thinking about coming back into the first team," the Frenchman said at his weekly news conference.

"He has not played for 10 months so we need to be patient with him. He has good basic fitness but after it is competitive decision-making and he needs to get used to that again."