And with that, I’m gone. Here’s the match report again. Bye!

And Eddie Howe has a good chinwag. Quite good stuff, this:

Yeah, tough opening period of the game for us, and that’s where we lost the match. Arsenal started brightly, we didn’t. We weren’t our best, that was very clear. We found it difficult to get pressure on the ball, we found it difficult to get on the ball, they went two goals up and it was a tough evening for us. We responded really well. With 15 minutes to go in the first half we found our gears, and from there we were fine. There were elements of our game that we need to look at and address, problems we had on the pitch that we didn’t deal with well enough, but I think it was more a feeling that wasn’t quite there today. A feeling that we had against Brighton, that we had to dig in and fight and scrap. We were losing too many duels, missing too many tackles.

It’s hugely frustrating. I know the players aren’t going out there intentionally to deliver that, but it’s where we are at the moment. We’re a little bit Jekyll and Hyde, in that we can perform, we can compete, we can do everything we need to do to win games, and then sometimes that’s missing. That’s the frustrating part. From my side, I don’t quite know what’s going to turn up. The one quality we do need to show between now and the end of the season is the nasty stuff, the horrible stuff, the off-the-ball bits that we need to do. We have to deliver that. We can’t afford not to.

Mikel Arteta has a chat. What, he’s asked, did he like about Arsenal’s display?

I think the way we started the game, and the way they followed what we wanted to do, to generate overloads and space in the areas we wanted. In the second half we became a little bit sloppy in our passing, the rhythm was down and I didn’t like that very much. And in the second half we knew they were going to push, and we suffered a little bit and conceded a goal in the end, which made it difficult and nervous.

He’s asked about Martinelli and Sako, and their combinations on the left which were a feature of the first half:

We need to find different ways to generate good situations for us, and they start to understand what I’m looking for from them. I would like us to be a little bit more flexible with some things we can do, but in general with the young lads I’m really happy today.

And finally, on the prospect of them plundering the transfer market this month:

We are in the market and the club is trying to facilitate us one or two boys, but I don’t know. When we have something to say we will confirm it with you.

This cannot be coincidence. Alright, it could be, but a really extraordinary one.

Here’s Ed Aarons’ match report from the Vitality Stadium:

If this is what Mikel Arteta’s vision for Arsenal’s future looks like then the club should be in very safe hands. First-half goals from youth team products Bukayo Saka and Eddie Nketiah secured a first away victory for their manager since he succeeded Unai Emery that sets up another trip to the south coast to play Portsmouth in the fifth round.

Along with the impressive Joe Willock and Gabriel Martinelli, Arteta’s decision to field a starting lineup that featured four players aged 20 and under paid dividends here with an all-action display that left Eddie Howe’s side chasing shadows at times during the first half.

Much more here:

Bournemouth weren’t great in the second half, but they were at least competitive. They threw themselves around a bit, they closed down, they denied Arsenal the space and time that helped them dominate the opening period. Arsenal looked good in the first half, but most teams would have looked good against that Bournemouth side. They also sustained a potentially serious defensive injury, with Mustafi being stretchered off, which is good or bad, depending on your perspective.

90+11 mins: While the goal kick is in the air, the final whistle blows!

90+10 mins: The chance! Fraser crosses, Martinez roars off his line to punch to Lewis Cook on the edge of the area, who chests down and half-volleys high!

90+10 mins: They’re still going. Bournemouth have the ball, but too far from goal.

90+8 mins: Surridge is booked for fouling Guendouzi. Guendouzi himself has negotiated the game without a caution, remarkably.

90+7 mins: Ceballos is closed down by Lewis Cook as he clears the ball. He goes down for a while, which is good game management or bad cheating, depending on your viewpoint.

90+5 mins: The goal stands. Bournemouth have three minutes (and some more stoppage time) to lay siege to the Arsenal penalty area.

90+5 mins: VAR wants to see some more replays of the goal. I can’t see any other reason for him stopping proceedings here.

Francis’s cross goes through a cluster of bodies to Surridge, who takes a touch to control before tapping into the net, with Martinez grounded and irrelevant.

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90+3 mins: Guendouzi hits a 25-yard shot that keeps rising, clearing the bar by a foot or so.

90+2 mins: Xhaka is booked for timewasting, as he dallies over a free-kick.

90+2 mins: Arsenal make their final change, bringing Ainsley Maitland-Niles on for Willock.

90+1 mins: There will be about eight minutes of stoppage time. Eight!

89 mins: Bournemouth’s final substitution sees Sam Surridge replace Dominic Solanke.

89 mins: Bournemouth remain one goal away from making this interesting. Francis’s cross is thumped clear by Guendouzi.

86 mins: The frustrating thing about Ceballos is that his surname very nearly means onions, but doesn’t (that would be cebollas). He thus fails to make it into a vegetable-name XI, alongside Fabrizio Ravanelli (radishes) and, um, some others I don’t know.

85 mins: Arsenal win a corner now. Ceballos sends it in, it’s flicked on and then headed clear, all without anyone hurting anyone else.

83 mins: Both players have recovered. There might be quite a lot of injury time here.

81 mins: More injuries. This time Cook and Sokratis clash heads in the area.

81 mins: Both players recover, and a couple of minutes later Gosling, from the edge of the D, has a shot that deflects off Xhaka for a corner.

79 mins: More injuries. Saka goes down after a collision with Gosling, who gets up, runs on and collides with Guendouzi.

77 mins: A spell of Bournemouth possession in their own half ends with Cook, under pressure from Nketiah, passing out of play for a corner. Matt Stephens writes: “A comfortable away victory, a clean sheet and a Mustafi injury. Surely I am dreaming!”

76 mins: That’s Simpson’s last contribution to the game. He and Harry Wilson come off, and Callum Wilson and Simon Francis are on.

75 mins: Simpson and Bellerin both go for a lofted pass on the Bournemouth left. Bellerin wins it in the air, and Simpson jumps into him. The Arsenal player is receiving treatment.

73 mins: This game is still being played at a decent tempo, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that one team knows it no longer has to score, and the other no longer knows how to score.

70 mins: It is absolutely tipping down in Bournemouth now. Arsenal take off Pepe, and bring on Dani Ceballos.

68 mins: Bellerin surges forwards. Just back from a lengthy injury lay-off, the Spaniard scored a late goal in his comeback game at Chelsea and is sprinting 70 yards at this stage of this one, which seems admirable.

66 mins: Oooooh! Martinez comes out and flaps at the corner, and Simpson heads just wide of the empty net!

66 mins: Another corner. The home fans are starting to believe.

65 mins: Holding’s first task is to concede a corner. Sokratis heads it clear.

62 mins: Mustafi departs on the stretcher and is taken straight down the tunnel. Holding is on.

61 mins: Mustafi will play no more. A stretcher has been brought on, and Rob Holding is being readied.

60 mins: It did look like Mustafi landed very awkwardly on his left foot, and that his ankle might very well be genuinely sore. Though of course he could just be timewasting.

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58 mins: The ball bounces towards Arsenal’s penalty area, with Solanke bustling around threateningly. Martinez comes out and goes to head it, Mustafi beats him to it, and the defender ends up on the ground, clutching his left shin. Bournemouth don’t profit from all of this panic.

57 mins: The home fans are now booing Martinelli, because of his play-acting, and Guendouzi, because he and Gosling aren’t playing nice.

57 mins: Guendouzi brings down Lewis Cook. There was hardly any contact, which is presumably why the referee didn’t get out his book for a player who has been booking-bound since the very early stages.

54 mins: Bournemouth send a fine ball into the area, but Martinelli - who not only didn’t have a head injury a few minutes back, but no injury at all - heads clear.

53 mins: Guendouzi goes to pick up a dead ball, at which Gosling tries to stamp on it, and the two players square up. It was Bournemouth’s ball, so Guendouzi should probably have kept his hands off it, but Gosling’s attempt to take it seemed a little over-aggressive.

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51 mins: Play continues for an age with Martinelli on the turf, apparently hurt. Arsenal attack for a while, then Bournemouth win the ball and have a go. Eventually the referee stops play though it’s hard to see why, there not being a head injury to worry about.

47 mins: Obviously Bournemouth will be needing a goal soonish, and not to concede again, if they are to have a chance here. Arsenal though have the first attack of the half, and the first corner, which is competently defended.

46 mins: And they’re off!

The players are back out and ready for more. A goal and an assist for Bukayo Saka already, and he’s outassisting his teammates this season by a convincing margin.

Half-time viewing: “Hi Simon,” writes Ben. Hi!. “The confusingly titled Live is Life, which you mention [a while ago now, but still - ed] was blasting out at the Vitality Stadium, will always be associated with this quite amazing video of Maradona warming up in 1989.”

45+3 mins: Bournemouth demonstrated in the closing stages of the half that this could have been an exciting and closely-contested Cup tie, had they not conceded twice and played like a gang of absolute pranksters for the best part of 40 minutes beforehand.

45+1 mins: There’ll be a couple of minutes of stoppage time. They start with Harry Wilson becoming the night’s first cautionee, after bringing Nketiah down from behind.

45 mins: Bournemouth have had an encouraging five minutes. It’s a shame that the scoreline is so discouraging already, but still. They win a corner, but waste it miserably.

44 mins: Xhaka gives the ball away to Fraser, who exchanges passes with Solanke, jinks his way to the edge of the area and then slices a shot hopelessly wide.

41 mins: Bournemouth have woken up! Fraser passes to the overlapping Simpson, whose pull-back is booted clear by Xhaka.

39 mins: Another Bournemouth shot! This time Wilson (H) crosses from the right and Gosling meets it, though unfortunately he meets it with his shoulder and the ball loops over the bar.

38 mins: Shot! By Bournemouth! Fraser’s cross from the left flicks off a head to Harry Wilson, beyond the far post, whose volley towards the near post is saved by Emiliano Martinez.

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37 mins: Gosling steals the ball from Sokratis, who presumably had forgotten that there were any Bournemouth players, so rarely have they bothered him, but Bournemouth fail to capitalise.

35 mins: Simpson does well to stop Nketiah reaching Guendouzi’s through-ball. “Arsenal’s search to replace Mustafi is over,” trills Charles Antaki. “There’s a chap on the field, also called Mustafi, who seems to be a reincarnation of Franco Baresi and Franz Beckenbauer. Sign him up, Mikel!”

33 mins: Pepe distracts every defender in the neighbourhood and then passes to Bellerin, now alone on the right, who has time to measure his cross but Cook wins the battle to put a head on it.