Wenger relieved to pass plucky part-timers

LONDON - Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said his team could easily have faced an FA Cup humiliation against non-league Sutton United had the Gunners not been fully focused.

Arsenal won Monday's fifth-round tie 2-0 at Sutton's 5,000-capacity Gander Green Lane home, but the north Londoners were given a real run for their money by a team ranked 105 places below it in the English league system.

Goals from Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott, his 100th for the Gunners, earned the visitor victory, but the part-timers pushed it until the end, even hitting the bar through ex-Arsenal trainee Roarie Deacon.