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Danny Welbeck was delighted to help Arsene Wenger celebrate 18 years at Arsenal with a hat-trick in a 4-1 win over Galatasaray in the Champions League.
The Frenchman was celebrating his anniversary at the Emirates and Welbeck's treble alongside a strike from Alexis Sanchez sealed a comfortable win with Burak Yilmaz responding from the penalty spot as Wojciech Szczesny was sent off.
Some eyebrows were raised when Wenger shelled out £16million for Welbeck on transfer deadline day but the former Manchester United striker is happy to be repaying that faith.
"He's shown a lot of faith in me and I'm delighted to pay him back tonight," he told Sky Sports 1.
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"Just giving me the chance to play football up front in my preferred position, I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that he's happy."
He added: "I think we've set the benchmark now and we've really got to try to go on that. From now on we want to get the three points every single game."
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