Our hopes of securing a top-four place are effectively over after we could only draw with Brighton in our final home match of the season.
Having seen Chelsea win 3-0 before kick off, we knew that we needed to do the same to keep our hopes alive – and we made the perfect start.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan hit the post with little more than 60 seconds on the clock, and we continued to press and were soon awarded a penalty when Nacho Monreal was bundled over in the area by Alireza Jahanbakhsh.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang stepped up and made no mistake to give us the early advantage, but in truth we failed to build on it for much of a sluggish first half.