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 16 million pounds for Welbeck in January 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. "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.''
Welbeck was pleased to notch his first first-team hat-trick and is hoping that more of the same tactics can bring more goals.
"I'm obviously delighted to get the goals but I think the most important thing was that we got our three points on the board tonight,'' he said. "I'm playing up front, trying to score goals and getting into goalscoring opportunities and tonight it paid off, I got the three goals.''
Wenger was happy with Welbeck's calm demeanour in front of goal after seeing him snatch at some chances since his move.
"He is such a good player that it gives him time to finish calm,'' he said. "Once the players understand that, their finishing improves a lot.''
Wenger's sides throughout his tenure in north London have often been accused of trying to walk the ball into the goal but the addition of Welbeck and Sanchez has brought a welcome injection of pace to the Arsenal attack.
"We have good pace on basically all the areas of the pitch and you could see that today. It was very dangerous for them,'' he added. "(Sanchez) played well, made some good passes apart from the goal we conceded but before that I think he had a very good performance.''
Szczesny was given his marching orders for bringing down Yilmaz in the area but Wenger refused to be too harsh on his goalkeeper.
"It's a fraction of a second,'' he said. "He has to come out and he makes a penalty. I felt when you lose the ball in your own half like we did that kind of thing can happen.
"That's the problem at that level, it's Champions League and you can only keep consistent domination of a game if you keep your concentration and we just relaxed a little bit with the fourth goal.''