WEMBLEY-BOUND Arsenal will be looking to “achieve their first goal of the season” on Sunday by lifting the Carabao Cup.

If the Gunners can topple Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, then not only will Mikel Arteta get one over his old mentor, but he’ll also manage to get his hands on a trophy that even Arsene Wenger didn’t win during his 22-year reign at Arsenal.

To do that, though, Arteta says he is going to have to transform the “home of football” into Ashburton Grove, as he called on Gooners to make some noise during “the beautiful final”.

The Arsenal manager said: “We need the Emirates Stadium at Wembley. So, everybody has to turn up and bring their energy, their belief and the conviction that we’re going to do it.”

Winning the Carabao Cup would mark the first step in the Gunners ambitious quadruple chase – a dream that remains on course after the north Londoners comfortably beat Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday night to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

A stunner from Eberechi Eze opened the scoring in N5 – the attack-minded midfielder collecting a pass on the edge of the area and swivelling before unleashing a thunderbolt past helpless Leverkusen keeper Janis Blaswich.

Captain-in-waiting Declan Rice wrapped up a 3-1 aggregate win just after the hour mark when he ran onto a Leverkusen clearance and calmly placed the ball into the bottom corner.

Arsenal will now play Portuguese champions Sporting Lisbon in the last-eight next month.

Arteta will wait until the last possible second before naming his starting line-up for Sunday’s final, with two key players facing a race against time.

Club captain Martin Odegaard and Jurrien Timber both missed the midweek win over Leverkusen with injuries.

Offering an update on Timber this week, Arteta said: “We don’t know. I think with him it will be a matter of days.”

The news surrounding Odegaard was also vaguely optimistic, with the Spaniard adding: “So we’re really pushing. He really wants to try to be available, but we’ll have to wait and see in the next few days when he trains with the team how he feels. The more players that we have the better.”

If Odegaard doesn’t make it – or more likely is only fit enough to start on the bench – then Eze certainly isn’t a bad understudy. The screamer that he scored against Leverkusen was yet another sign of how the 27-year-old is settling in­to his new life at Arsenal, with Arteta praising the “rhythm and understanding” that Eze has developed with his new teammates.