Leading 2-0 from last week’s first leg at San Siro, the Gunners fell behind to a stunning Hakan Calhanoglu strike 10 minutes before half-time.

Milan’s hopes of a memorable comeback were short-lived as Welbeck converted from the penalty spot four minutes later having gone down under negligible contact from Ricardo Rodriguez.

An error from Gianluigi Donnarumma saw Granit Xhaka extinguish the fading prospects of Gennaro Gattuso’s side and Welbeck added his second four minutes from time.

Attention after the match turned back towards the penalty decision and, not for the first time in his illustrious career, Wenger claimed he did not see a key incident.

“Honestly, I don’t know. I will watch it again promise I will give you an honest answer,” he told BT Sport.

“Maybe, looking at the reaction of the Italian players, maybe we got a little bit lucky.

“The positive of the situation is straight away at 1-0 down you could see the response of the team. We released our handbrake a little bit and played positively.

“Were we lucky on the penalty? Maybe, I don’t know.

“I don’t want to accuse Danny Welbeck of diving before I have seen the situation. He looked genuine, [thinking] it was a penalty. I will watch it again.”

Wenger lost senior central defender Laurent Koscielny during the opening stages when the France international cramped up having taken a kick to the back.

In the context of that loss and the torrid form in which Arsenal entered the tie, the veteran French coach was particularly pleased with the character his team showed.

“It’s much better. We needed that to recover our form from a bad week,” Wenger added.

“It shows that the team is healthy and has responded. We had a difficult game but in the end we won it.

“It was open and we played a little bit with a handbrake. Instead of turning the ball forwards we played backwards and played too much to protect the result.

“Then you put yourself in danger. We were playing against a good side who have not lost in 14 games in the Italian championship.”

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The Gunners dominated most of the match, but were unable to find the back of the net, before Jese grabbed the winner on his debut.

Speaking after the game, Wenger also lamented poor officiating, which saw Alexandre Lacazette’s goal ruled out for offside.

He said: “We made stupid mistakes centrally and on top of that we were unlucky with some decisions from the referee.

“It’s a difficult defeat to swallow. We had chances – we should have won the game comfortably.

“We were unlucky. I think we scored a regular goal that was given offside and it wasn’t offside.

“It was frustrating getting caught cold for the goal. Defensively there is no excuse. We gave them a cheap goal.

“It was difficult to get the fluency. We tried but we couldn’t find the goal. There was lack of anticipation in the box with the second ball.

“To lose a game like that is disappointing You don’t want to lose games that you should win.”

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Wenger expects the league’s elite teams to be stronger after the summer transfer market and sees the Blues dropping more points.

“I expect them to fight for the championship.

“But will they make as many points? I don’t know.

“You could expect that some teams will be stronger as well and take points from them,” the Frenchman said.

Wenger will lead his side out against Antonio Conte’s men on Sunday, as the season begins with the Community Shield.

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