The 22-year-old striker is out of agreement on the stop of the season and gave ability suitors inside the January transfer window a reminder of his predatory prowess in the front of goal.
Nicolas Pepe and Charlie Patino on his debut were also on track for the Gunners because the in shape went in advance at the Emirates without any restrictions on crowd numbers no matter London mayor Sadiq Khan putting forward a "major incident" in the English capital because of spiralling coronavirus infection numbers.
Arsenal have been certainly one of simply 8 aspects in Premier League action remaining weekend as the wave of Covid instances because of the brand new Omicron version decimated the English soccer calendar.
Mikel Arteta made nine modifications from the facet that thrashed Leeds 4-1, however Arsenal have been by no means in risk of struggling an disenchanted.
Nketiah opened the scoring on 17 minutes as he bundled the ball home from close variety after Rob Holding's header changed into parried by way of Sunderland goalkeeper Lee Burge.
Pepe stays Arsenal's record signing, but has been dropped down the pecking order this season because of the form of youngsters Bukayo Saka, Emile Smith Rowe and Gabriel Martinelli.
The Ivorian took his rare threat to polish as he exchanged passes with Cedric Soares earlier than seeing his strike deflected beyond the helpless Burge.
Nathan Broadhead pulled a goal lower back for League One Sunderland before 1/2-time.
But Nketiah quickly restored Arsenal's -intention gain five mins into the second one 1/2, flicking in a Nuno Tavares move on the near publish.
