Wenger determination and fair on allow new players to show their talent protect him on criticism against his management. After end of the match Wenger hails super sub Nketiah for fantastic scores against Norwich last night.
Murphy, Nelson Oliveira and Mario Vrancic came close before Wenger introduced Nketiah onto the field.
His first touch was to tap the ball in from Francis Coquelin's flick-on, while he went on to rise highest from another corner to head Arsenal into the quarter-finals.
And having made wholesale changes to his Arsenal side, Wenger said he was grateful in the end that youth, not experience, was his only option on the bench.
"This is the cup where I decide every year to educate young players who have good potential," Wenger added.
"I think it's good that you have only young players on the bench in this situation, because if you have an experienced player, you go for him.
"In this case, you just think, who can help me. And having young strikers on the bench, that's great."
Norwich boss Daniel Farke left the Emirates aggrieved, with Mohamed Elneny escaping a red card despite appearing to be the last man when hauling down Murphy.
"I'm not a guy who calls for red cards, but this situation because we were one-on-one with the goalkeeper. That's almost 100 per cent 2-0 and then we're in the next round," Farke said.
"Elneny should have seen a red card and then it's 11 men against 10 and they are not able to build so much pressure and there are not all those set pieces and no 1-1. To accept this decision is really hard.
"I'm very proud of my lads for this performance, especially coming 48 hours after a high intensity derby win, but we're very disappointed because we feel we deserve to be in the next round.
"But in football sometimes you don't earn what you deserve and you must accept that."
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