[journalist] Breaking news, Mikel Arteta will sign a contract extension
until the end of the 24/25 season.
-[Lorena] Bye! -Bye bye.
Bye. Bye.
-[Arteta] Ciao. -Bye, my love.
Ciao.
[restless music]
[journalist] Are they right?
I probably would have waited 'til the summer,
but it feels like he's at the start of a journey, really, for Arteta.
The kids read news and... "Will he go somewhere else?"
"What is happening?" Or "You're gonna get fired, Daddy, if we lose another match?"
So I just feel extremely excited,
but it's just like a new beginning, you know.
We have a huge ambition to play Champions League next season
and this is what we're all aiming for,
and the sun is shining
and it's a beautiful day, so I want to enjoy it.
Because this profession, as you guys know,
and probably being close to us
understand much better now,
it has a lot of difficult moments
and the good ones, you have to enjoy them a lot.
[upbeat music]
[Arteta] My body every time I come in this stadium is like match day.
-Is that right? -Yeah.
-How are you? -Yeah, good.
-[Arteta] Have you got the papers? -[Venkatesham] Oh no!
You forget, like when you bring the ring.
When you bring the ring to the wedding, and say "Where is the ring?"
I think this sends a really powerful message.
That image of you.
Also at this point in the season,
we're not waiting till the end of the season.
[Arteta] That is really powerful.
-[Venkatesham] Congratulations. -Thank you very much.
[podcaster] I'm surprised with the timing.
There's still a long way to go in the season.
There's so much still to come, so much still to be decided.
[hip-hop music]
When you love what you do, that is called passion.
We have to believe, we have to have energy.
[shouts]
Show these people how much you care.
[cheers]
Let's go for it.
[crowd chanting]
[narrator] There are just 5 games left of the season.
Arsenal are currently sitting 4th in the Premier League
after big wins against Chelsea and Manchester United.
Paul's just given me my shirt from the weekend.
Who?
-Just a Cristiano signed one. -What!
[laughs] Good joke, mate.
[laughs]
[Aaron] Yeah, yeah.
[Bukayo] No!
Truly!
[Rob] Rambo, did you get Ronaldo?
Don't worry, I'm gonna get mine. I'm gonna get mine.
[narrator] With Champions League Football at stake,
Mikel calls a 1st team meeting to address concerns over their defence.
I want your opinion on the match.
How do you see it?
[Cédric] I think we started well in the game,
but after we give them a little bit hope at some moments.
Laca, what do you see from outside? Why we give them hope?
Maybe because we see the game is good for us,
so we maybe drop a bit of focus,
we start to give ball away,
we put ourself in trouble.
It was a great win,
but we were lucky,
and when we had to be lucky, we were lucky.
And it didn't only happen only here, it happened against Chelsea,
it happened against Southampton.
The outcome is different, and we should be happy,
but we should be as well aware that there is a lot of things that we can do
much better, okay?
So this week, guys, we have to step up the level. Let's go.
[tense music]
We are in high press here,
much quicker.
[Ian Wright] You're young, you're impetuous you want everything.
The expectation is put on you as well.
I think they've dealt with it very well, but now,
it's just gonna get more and more intense.
Every time you give the ball away now,
5 push-ups afterwards.
[player] Guys, guys!
For me you have to win every game at this club
and that's the pressure.
Okay, push-ups.
The margin for error is minimal,
but I don't have to be on that pitch making decision,
making right or wrong decision like that can affect you
during the match.
[Arteta] [in Spanish] Vale.
Use the free man, Ben.
Good, Emile, Granit.
[Granit] The most difficult thing is the pressure.
You can be so good but when the moment is here, when pressure is so high,
it's a different game.
[tense music continues]
[hubbub]
[Arteta] Good, Jack. Careful, Laca, careful.
[whistle]
[Alexandre] Speak normally. Speak normally.
Speak normally.
[shouting]
Speak normally. I said, speak normally.
[Arteta] Hey, hey, hey!
-[Arteta] Oh! Oh! -Speak normally.
Hey!
Please, speak normally.
[coach] Stop!
-Hey, it's fine. -It's fine, it's fine.
[Alexandre] This...
is normal in football.
If you have players who want to win, it is normal,
if you have players who doesn't care, it will never happen.
When we came back in the dressing room I came back to,
to say sorry because sometimes you just become crazy.
It's just special to win.
[narrator] As well as coping with the end-of-season intensity,
Mikel also has injuries to contend with.
[Reece] Quite low down now.
Before... Post-game it was kinda, more medial than proximal but...
So it's probably some swelling that's trapped down there.
Yeah, don't like that.
Still don't like that.
Yeah? Still on that medial side.
I think if I was going to hedge my bets, I think it's more medial hamstrings.
[narrator] Defender Ben White's hamstring injury isn't severe,
but it rules him out for the weekend.
26-year-old Rob Holding is another of the club's centre backs.
This season, most of his league appearances
have come as a late substitute to help firm up the defence.
[Rob] A lot of time, it's been like a protocol now,
as soon as we're 1-nil up or 2-1 closing, closing into the 80th minute or whatever,
sub me on to sort of help see it out and if that's my role for this year,
to help the team that way, then so be it.
[producer] We, as a filming team, think you are the happiest man in the building.
Yeah, I get that a lot, they're saying, "Why are you so happy all the time?"
And I'm just like, I don't know I get paid to play football every day,
why are you not happy?
[upbeat music]
[narrator] For the next match,
Arsenal make the 5 mile trip to East London
and Rob Holding has a place in the starting 11.
[commentator] A Premier League London Derby
with Champions League qualification,
the primary aim for both West Ham and Arsenal.
Ben White misses out with a tight hamstring,
Rob Holding is his replacement.
[upbeat music continues]
In life, guys, when you have an opportunity there,
two approaches.
Wait if it comes or fucking go for it.
My team, you guys today, we go for it,
from the first minute, like you did against Manchester United, we go for it.
I want everybody playing forward,
taking initiative, taking risk and making them feel
that we are here to win.
From the first fucking minute in your face, I want to see.
They cannot handle our energy,
so we have to be physical, intelligent,
and we have to be ambitious and today, we have to show it right now
in the first fucking minute. Let's go.
[cheering and clapping]
[whistle]
[suspenseful music]
[commentator] And so it's Arsenal who get this game underway.
[commentator 2] Coufal plays it in low,
chance! Benrahma!
[commentator 3] Brilliant defending from Holding.
[commentator] Nketiah nice movement, edge of the area, shoots low,
good save by Fabianski.
This game has started at a very high tempo.
Played in by Saka.
[cheering]
Arsenal make a breakthrough!
And it's a special moment for Rob Holding.
It's his 1st Premier League goal for Arsenal.
[crowd chant]
[commentator 2] Tomiyasu towards Nketiah,
awkward pass.
[commentator] Good response from West Ham for going 1-nil down,
really good response.
Chance for Bowen!
And they're back on level terms.
West Ham 1, Arsenal 1.
[whistle]
West Ham will leave the field with an extra little spring in their step.
Okay boys,
we are putting ourselves in trouble with the ball.
Because we are giving the ball away and away and away and away and away.
We have to increase our activity defensively.
High and big, both. Both!
If not we don't win this fucking match.
Because here,
1 player here,
totally free and the other here and Gabi has to come to stop the show.
It's focus, guys, focus,
and heart.
I don't ask you anything else.
Nothing else.
But I want to see a different team there, guys.
A completely different team.
A team! Now I don't see a team.
I don't see a team that wants to play in the Champions League.
You want to play in the Champions League?
Play together in the fucking Champions League?
And I say to you, to you, to you and everyone
and everybody that comes on the bench to contribute, to help.
We work so hard, guys,
so hard to reach here and we give it away.
The good thing is, we have 45 minutes
and we can destroy them and they are there for the taking, right,
because they are physically dead.
Let's go, guys, let's go.
[cheering and clapping]
Let's go.
[crowd chanting]
[whistle]
[commentator] We get back under way.
Low ball into the penalty area.
Benrahma's onto it, it comes off the side of the head of Holding.
Martinelli will collect, still inside the penalty area.
Gabriel!
Arsenal take the lead
for the second time.
Arsenal 2-1 in front,
and they hope moving back in to the top 4 tonight.
Out to the left wing to Fredericks, here it comes,
into the box, poor cross.
[whistle]
There it is, the final whistle.
West Ham United 1, Arsenal 2,
and 3 wins in a row now for Arsenal.
[crowd chanting]
[cheers]
[man] Yes!
[hubbub]
Analysing how we played, so when we give our performances,
some better than others,
we did the crossing, we didn't do the crossing, the high press.
I fucking see a team, guys.
In the second half, we are a team.
That's why we win.
We play shit at periods, yes, but we are a fucking team.
I fucking kill you at half time and you deserved it.
But in the second half, you were much better. Okay?
And we have to...
[laughs]
Guys, we are going to beat everybody. [indistinct dialogue]
Nico, well done with the fucking set pieces.
We have to lift this up, guys,
with the energy, electricity of the first half,
or come here with the fucking throw, Sambi and fucking kick the ball.
Yes, we have 4 games, guys,
4 games to go.
This one is gone, Chelsea lost here, Liverpool lost here,
we don't lose here,
we find a way and we win,
and if you are not happy, smile for the team
and smile, Pépé, you're all right.
Yes, let's go.
[cheering and clapping]
[journalist] What was said at half-time? Because them scoring and equalizing
just before the break must have, you know,
taken the wind out of your sails.
What did Mikel say to you?
Yeah, exactly.
We were a bit disappointed to concede that coming into just before half-time.
It would have been nice to win 1-0.
But yeah, I think he gave us all a shouting
and telling-off
and then we came out and looked more like a team
and played how we wanted to play.
[journalist 2] Just wanted to ask you about Rob Holding.
The fans are saying he's better than Cannavaro.
Let's not compare. Rob Holding is really good at being Rob Holding
and he needs to be really happy for what he's done again today for the team.
[journalist] Going to be 4 more high pressure games, isn't it?
Yeah, it is. They have been high pressure games all year.
After the start we had, to look at where we are now
is credit to ourselves so...
Yeah, 4 to go, 4 wins hopefully,
and we'll be good as gold.
[soft music]
[upbeat music]
Hey mate, you all right?
[producer] Fresh off scoring his 1st Premier League goal.
About time mate, 6 years. 6 years it took me.
[narrator] Arsenal are sitting 4th.
2 points above rivals Tottenham Hotspur.
[O'Driscoll] Come in, guys.
[narrator] Following the West Ham game,
the club's medical team meet to discuss injuries affecting the squad.
[O'Driscoll] Let's crack on.
Any new injuries from the game, Jord?
[Reece] I think Rob was... Didn't come in yesterday,
so I think we're going to check him again today.
But I think it's great he got through the game.
No new increase in swelling or pain.
So that's fantastic.
Tomiyasu too.
Rick had a good check of him there yesterday.
[Ricky O'Donoghue] Yeah, he was pretty positive actually, really happy.
[Reece] Yeah and that's it and then from a rehab side,
Ben White, day 9, still a few symptoms hanging around.
Yeah, for him to start running,
be it on the treadmill and then progress on to the gym,
it's going to be back end of this week, so Leeds is a definite no-no.
I think Tottenham becomes very tight
and you're running the risk of re-injuring there so...
I think erm... We'll know as the week goes on
but I wouldn't make any plans for that yet.
[narrator] Despite the injury worries,
Mikel and the rest of the team
prepare for their next home game against Leeds.
[hubbub]
We in here for a meeting or...
-[man] No, straight out. -Ah, buzzing.
[Rob] Stepping in and then scoring
the 1st goal to sort of set us on our way,
well, it was my head, weren't it? It's always my head.
[hubbub]
What's been nice about the most recent months
is that I've been able to get involved
and feel more like a footballer and playing and stuff,
and if the team get top 4, I can feel like I've really helped that.
[whistle]
[cheers]
[cheers of joy]
[upbeat music]
[shouts]
[Sam Wilson] Rob doesn't look good at all.
I think he's trying to force it. For me, he doesn't look good.
You can see he is uncomfortable.
[Arteta] Rob, enough.
I don't want any risk, yeah? We'll leave it, okay?
Good ball here!
[hubbub]
[Laura] What have you done?
It's been painful all session.
-[Laura] Has it? -[groans]
[melancholic music]
[indistinct conversation]
[Reece] Man of the match, scores a fucking goal.
What more can you ask from the fella?
[narrator] Rob's been struggling with his knee.
He's been sent to the physios to assess how serious it is.
And who knows what's wrong with my knee...
Who knows... We never know... We don't know yet, do we?
-[coach] They don't know. -It could be nothing.
It could just be fuck all. And it's just...
-Too much beer. -[laughs]
-Did you have a few little cans after? -Na, I've not had anything.
What?
[narrator] The final 2 home games are fast approaching,
and Mikel tries every possible tactic
to keep the team on track.
I've been searching for many months a song,
an anthem before kick-off,
so everybody feels part of what we are doing
and it has some DNA about our club.
I'm going to share it with you.
He's called Louis Dunford,
and he's written a song about the streets of North London.
[crowd screaming]
[soft ballad playing]
[crowd singing] ♪ North London forever ♪
♪ Whatever the weather ♪
♪ These streets are our own ♪
He's a local lad, he's a huge Arsenal fan,
he's like the sun has come to us in my opinion in the right moment
to change and go another step at the Emirates
because I want you to play in an incredible atmosphere.
The fans are really, really pushing it now
to be played on Sunday.
So if you agree with that it's very possible that we can do it if you want.
Bukayo is from South London, he's not North London so...
-[Bukayo] West London. -[Arteta] Oh, West.
[Rounds] Posh boy, eh? Knightsbridge?
[Arteta] Okay, sorry. Let's go!
-[Rounds] Just back of Harrods! -[laughs]
[upbeat music]
[hubbub]
[narrator] Rob recovers in time to play his 4th game in a row.
[Nadia Rose] ♪ You Gunners, Gunners, come on ♪
♪ You Gunners, Gunners, come on You Gunners, Gunners ♪
[laughing]
[Nadia Rose] Arsenal, for me, it feels like...
It feels like home.
[cheering]
There's something different here.
It's that "je ne sais quoi",
it's that thing you can't put your finger on it,
it's just Arsenal.
This is home, you're welcome here,
and it's beautiful, you know.
[Wretch 32] We are rebooted and we're in that mode right now.
I believe we can get back up there.
As a supporter and a believer and a fan, you always believe it can happen.
So yeah.
[David Seaman] We've just had a season without Europe,
and that was something that was almost guaranteed here.
You've got to have the big European nights here,
it's what the fans deserve.
Thanks for coming! Thanks for having me.
[narrator] The club have decided to play Louis Dunford's song before kick-off.
It's going to be a big moment.
[narrator] A huge honour for the local musician.
The love that I got for the song off of the fans
was well enough, like...
I don't know... I'm a bit speechless, to be honest.
[crowd chanting]
["The Angel (North London Forever)" playing]
[crowd singing] ♪ North London forever ♪
♪ Whatever the weather ♪
♪ These streets are our own ♪
♪ And my heart will leave you never ♪
♪ My blood will forever ♪
♪ Run through the stone ♪
[cheering]
[whistle]
[tense music]
[commentator] Quick thinking from Arsenal, Eddie Nketiah
reacting brilliantly.
[narrator] Arsenal dominate the opening stages of the game...
[commentator 2] Here's Gabriel Martinelli,
great touch from the young Brazilian. Oh!
He's on fire.
[narrator] ...with Eddie Nketiah scoring 2 goals in 10 minutes.
Despite a fightback in the 2nd half...
[commentator] At the back post, Diego Llorente.
[shouts]
[narrator] ...the Gunners win 2-1.
[whistle]
[crowd cheering]
After 4 wins in a row, Arsenal are now 4 points clear of Tottenham Hotspur.
[hubbub]
[narrator] If they win against their North London rivals on Thursday,
they'll secure Champions League qualification.
It's a massive game.
[Arteta] And now the tricky thing is Kane.
We have to counter-press.
And we have to put this ball under pressure,
as quick as possible.
In 2 passes, they don't manage the ball well,
guys, we can kill them.
Because we are 20 metres away from goal.
And that's the game that we have to play.
It's clear? Cool, guys.
Okay.
[tense music]
[hubbub]
[podcaster] This will be hostile, won't it?
This will be absolutely rocking.
[podcaster 2] It's as big a London Derby, I think,
because of the prize, that I can remember.
The prize is the future.
[producer] How does it feel that it's Tottenham that you're battling
for the top 4 with?
There is obviously a special rivalry, you know and er...
and you are fighting against a team that historically has been our neighbours
and are one of the main rivals.
For me, personally, it's... let's go.
It's business time and er,
and enjoy the moment.
-[cheers] -[whistle]
It all comes down to us v. Tottenham for the top 4, so I think it's...
It'll be one of the biggest derby's we've had with them in a while.
[producer] What's your prediction?
I'm trying not to think about it, I think is the best way to go about it.
[player] I'm here! I'm here!
[producer] Hat-trick tomorrow?
Fingers crossed, man, whether it's me or someone else, you know.
As long as we get the result, I'm gonna give my all as well so...
We just need 3 points, man, however it gets done.
-[player] Let's go! -[whistle]
[tense music]
[suspenseful music]
[crowd chanting]
This way please, thank you.
It's always a fixture that stirs the emotion for both sets of supporters.
And especially the away game, you know,
coming to enemy territory,
where they really hate the Arsenal.
[chanting]
Come on you Spurs! Come on!
When was the last time you ever won the European Cup?
Have you ever won it? Have you ever won it?
27 times in a row, never won it, mate. Never won it.
[hubbub]
[fan] Being a life-long Arsenal fan,
to climb back up the ladder and secure Champions League football here,
at their expense... Priceless.
[suspenseful music]
[boos]
[crowd chants]
[tense music]
[Arteta] Come together!
This journey started 9 months ago, guys. 9 months ago, we had 3 defeats,
it was the start of the season and in the dressing room you remember
I took a pencil and I write how I felt about you.
And I said, when I'm doubting, when I have fear,
when I'm going through different periods,
I am so pleased, guys, that I work with you every fucking day
and I feel privileged to do that.
Then we started to play against the Spurs
and then everybody started to make a piece and a history,
and won everything that I started to create.
And then we went to Dubai
and we said: "Can we dream to play in the Champions League next year?
"Is that possible?"
It has been challenging, yes, it has been difficult, yes,
but today we have the opportunity to make what this journey deserves,
which is to go out there, be us and win this fucking football match
like we deserve, guys.
Because you deserve it,
from the bottom of my heart, you deserve it
and I want to be with you,
because I feel privileged to represent you
and be your coach, guys.
So go out there and do it, guys.
[Granit] Let's go, boys. Let's go!
[cheering and clapping]
[suspenseful music]
[chanting]
[whistle]
[commentator] For 1 of these 2, the promised land awaits.
[chants continue]
[commentator 2] Just listen to the noise.
Odegaard is gonna shoot, takes a deflection
and picked up by Hugo Lloris.
It's been a confident start by Arsenal.
Left footed ball, Son is there, Sessegnon is there.
The referee has given a penalty.
There was a push there, Paul Tierney spotted it.
[suspenseful music]
Harry Kane from the penalty spot against Ramsdale.
He scores.
He maintains his 100% record from the spot against Arsenal.
[narrator] Spurs continue to trouble Arsenal's defence.
[whistle]
[commentator 2] Yellow card being shown here.
[commentator] I was just thinking Rob Holding
cannot keep going that tight with Son.
[narrator] Then just 7 minutes later...
[commentator 2] Holding again getting involved.
[commentator] Son's gone down.
There is contact from Holding and it looks really bad.
[commentator 2] Holding's in trouble, there's the 2nd yellow card
and there is the red.
[shouts]
And Arsenal are down to 10 men.
Paul Tierney was left with no option. Holding is dismissed.
[Rob] It's just shite, like...
Should have never been 1 v. 1 in the first place.
All the time, 1 v. 1.
[sighs]
[tense music]
[whistle]
[commentator] In it comes now and the header.
And it's headed into the far post by Harry Kane,
against the 10 men of Arsenal.
Spurs 2, Arsenal nil.
[whistle]
And Paul Tierney...
with the half-time whistle.
[tense music]
[Reece] That's over, that's half over, we start again, boys, come on.
[Aaron] We've done it before.
Guys. Today is not the last day when we have to fuck it up,
we have another 2 games and we cannot forget that, okay?
It's complicated enough, we have to stay and we have to go through this
together now.
Is that clear?
[cheering and clapping]
[Sam Wilson] Come on. All of us together, everyone together.
[whistle]
[crowd cheering]
[tense music]
[commentator] Harry Kane with his strength,
Harry Kane might pull back towards Son.
And it's North London Derby delight for Spurs!
[crowd cheering]
[whistle]
The referee has blown his final whistle.
It's a significant win.
It takes Spurs to within a point of Arsenal, who hold on to 4th.
[melancholic music]
Okay. This game is history. Yeah?
We don't talk about this game no more, it's gone, no social media,
no shit in the media, don't give them absolutely nothing.
We cannot do anything about it, it's gone, you know how we lost it.
We have to move on.
Now today, now in this moment...
Mo, look at me.
We have to win at Newcastle now, yeah?
This is gone, we cannot change it.
Guys, we learn from it
and I will complain everything that I can to try to defend our club
because it was a fucking joke what happened out there
and that, it's still in our hands.
And when it's in our hands, guys,
it's much better than not having it in your hands,
because it depends on us, yeah?
And it starts now.
So everybody start to talk about Newcastle.
Start to lift your head, guys, and start to get the energy,
recover well and Newcastle.
Every single one. Clear?
Let's go, guys.
[clapping]
[melancholic music]
[podcaster] That was a collapse, tonight.
That was a collapse that could affect their season from here on out.
[podcaster 2] That was not a performance of a side that deserved to be top 4
and Rob Holding, what are you doing?
[producer] Rob seems like quite a calm character, what do you think happened?
Well, you can question what happened in the first action, in the second one,
anybody has played football,
any defender that has been coached will tell you that there is no other way
to defend because you cannot cut your arms.
I really wanted to go there
and play the game the way we wanted to play it and erm,
and we weren't allowed to do so and that's my regret.
[Aaron] I really felt like we'd get a result, get a win.
I think everyone's emotions got...
especially what was riding on it,
especially for a team who haven't done it before, you know,
I think that's where we became unstuck.
Don't look back, this is gone, put it in the bin, it's in our hands,
2 games to go, we need to go and beat Newcastle now,
and that's the aim to do it.
[melancholic music continues]
[upbeat music]
[Arteta] Hey guys.
[narrator] After losing on Thursday night,
Mikel has just 3 days to get his players ready
for a crucial match away at Newcastle.
[Arteta] First game of the season, guys, I tell you,
I'm here and I tell you the first day before we played Brentford,
I said to you: guys, after 36 games,
we have to go to Newcastle and we have to beat Newcastle
so the last game of the season, we can be in the Champions League,
what would you say?
-[player] Take it. -Would you say that? Okay.
So we are in this moment, this is in our moment.
This is where we are, we have to go to Newcastle and we have to beat them.
Okay?
[tense music]
[journalist] Top 4 position is in your own hands, two wins,
and you're there but if you don't, you'll probably finish 5th.
Considering where you've come from last season and this season,
is that a thing to celebrate, that 5th will be fine?
No.
We want to be playing in the Champions League and that's the aim,
we've come so far as I said, it's in our hands.
And a lot has happened in the last few months
to be in the position that we are in so,
let's go for it.
[indistinct conversations]
My friend, it's Newcastle on a Monday night.
We're gonna have to work it.
[engine revving]
[suspenseful music]
[Ian Wright] I think people play the occasion in respects of knowing
what would happen if we won this game,
which is very difficult for a club
that's trying to get back to those heights
and being like a win away from doing it.
[crowd chanting]
[chanting continues]
St. James' Park is buzzing,
you don't wanna go there when they're like that.
For the first 15-20 minutes,
they're gonna be right in your face.
You have to learn how to deal
with the hostility and intensity.
[chanting]
You know, the whole season pretty much comes to down to this.
We have to win. If we don't win, top 4 is gone.
It'll be heart-breaking if we were to miss out this late on,
at the end of the season.
It's like a cup final really so, that's why it's so big.
[tense music]
It'll be a tight game but I think we'll get a win, I trust our boys.
Arsenal are a big club, we need to be back where we need to be,
top 4, this is the game to do it, if we mess up today then,
it's gonna be tough.
If we can do it, we're back in the big time
and then from there we can do what we need to do.
[chanting]
[clapping]
[player] Keep it up now, from the start.
Boys ah!
Let's fight together, boys, let's fight together.
[player 2] Enjoy the fight.
Get together, guys. Let's go.
[Stuivenberg] Anyone?
Guys, I sense the energy.
I know the energy that is in this room now is 6 days to go
but it's about today.
We have to take all this energy, guys,
and put it in that fucking football pitch.
You have earned the right to experience that today.
So now it's about confidence.
Believe in each other, guys, believe in yourselves and play.
I want you to see determination from the start.
So go, go forward, guys, play forward, go forward and take initiative
in the fucking game.
Energy from the first minute, I want to see that we want it more than them,
in every single ball.
In the base the same, we want it more than them.
We have to see that, guys. We're ready to go.
[cheering and clapping]
[player] Let's go!
[suspenseful music]
[Granit] Let's go, boys, let's go. Let's go, let's go, let's go.
[suspenseful music continues]
[commentator] Ben White returns at centre half,
such an important player.
Rob Holding is suspended after that red card.
The atmosphere inside the stadium is electrifying.
For Arsenal, this is it, everything is on the line that they've played
for this season.
[whistle]
And it comes to Arsenal,
bring the holy grail of Champions League football
back to the Emirates Stadium.
[suspenseful music]
Clever through ball.
Good save in the end.
Arsenal are under a bit of early pressure.
Here's Saint-Maximin, beats Tomiyasu.
Wonderful save from Ramsdale, great football from Newcastle.
[narrator] It's a poor start from Arsenal.
Tomiyasu is out and they've only managed 1 shot on target in the first half.
[commentator] The half time whistle blows.
Newcastle dominating, clearly the better side so far.
[Reece] Reset boys, reset, go again. Come on.
[Granit] We are losing every ball.
Every ball we have, we are losing.
Okay, in life, when you want to achieve something you have to suffer.
You know that, yeah?
You have to earn the right to play
and to do that, you have to win your duel, you have to be compact,
you have to win the second ball and you have to be first on the ball.
Because at the minute, it's all them.
You know the department, it's all them and we have to flick the switch.
The best way to do it, guys, have the ball.
If a deep free kick here,
deep free kick here and they are coming more,
coming and coming the ball.
You come on the ball
and leave Gabi there and Granit,
and provide them something.
Guys, we have to turn this around.
[cheering and clapping]
[Forsythe] Let's go, boys, come on.
[Granit] Guys, we are dreaming for the fucking Champions League,
we're playing like a second division team, man.
Everyone wake up now for 45 minutes, guys.
We have to play how they are playing.
[Stuivenberg] Come on, play.
[Granit] Fuck me, fuck... Wake up, guys, wake up.
[shouts]
[coach] We gotta fight, come on.
[whistle]
[crowd cheering]
[suspenseful music]
[narrator] Newcastle continue to dominate.
Arsenal hold on.
But in the 56th minute...
[crowd cheering]
...desperate defending puts the ball into their own net.
[commentator] Now Arsenal have some big problems.
[commentator 2] They've got a mountain to climb.
Longstaff thinking it through, Ramsdale does brilliantly, Guimarães.
[crowd cheering]
This leaves Arsenal's hopes for the Champions League next season
holding on an immensely slender thread.
[tense music]
Well, Arteta's steely gaze I'm afraid says it all.
[narrator] A 2-nil defeat, the hope of finishing 4th has all but gone.
It's a devastating result for Mikel and his players.
[ominous music]
It doesn't matter what I say, it doesn't matter what you say. Now, it's too late.
They were 10 000 times better than us today.
In everything, we didn't earn the right to play,
we didn't win a fucking duel, we didn't win a second ball,
we were horrible with the fucking ball,
we had no organisation, we have nothing, guys.
Nothing.
So now... [whistles]
shut your mouth and eat it.
We could have conceded 8 goals
and you see the chances you will cry,
you will cry the way we have competed.
It's not that we have competed,
it's we didn't compete at all in the game.
It's fucking embarrassing to come here and work the way we have done it.
Embarrassing, guys!
What happened today is fucking unacceptable
and if you accept something like this, you live in a different world, guys.
In a different world, guys.
Don't worry, I will face the people.
But today it's hard to defend you, guys. Hard.
I will take all the shit again.
No worries.
I'll be prepared tomorrow to start training, to beat Everton,
because we have our fans there.
You never know what happens in football, they might lose at Norwich,
you don't know.
[fan] It's such a sad, sad moment of my life.
I think Newcastle had the better heart, I'll be honest with you.
Newcastle looked the better team,
they were pressing a lot more hard and it's hard, it's sad to see.
[fan 2] This was in our hands.
This was completely in our hands
and we've come here, no offence to Newcastle,
but we should be beating them here, we should be beating them.
We had the Champions League in our hands.
I ain't seen us qualify for it in about 6 years, this is killing me.
[melancholic music]
[indistinct conversations]
[Rob] It seems a bit quiet.
But it always should do, shouldn't it, really.
It would be weird if people came in laughing and joking and really loud,
you'd be like...
a few people hurting.
[Ben] It's obviously really disappointing...
You think back and what you could have done better and you know, like,
I haven't played for 3 weeks
and I come on and score an own goal straight away.
It's obviously shit but...
Not that you can focus too much on stuff like that,
it's the whole season we've all done so well and...
You know, next season, I'm sure we'll go again and do better.
[melancholic music]
[Granit] When you're so close, to achieve something big
and maybe don't take it...
This is more disappointing,
but it's the past, we can't change it,
we can't change the Newcastle game as well now.
We had something to do, we didn't.
Too many reasons why and...
We are now here waiting and hoping for the other team now.
[melancholic music]
[Takehiro] We still have a chance to play Champions League.
Yeah, we have to just pray
for supporters and to take 3 points.
[narrator] To get back into 4th,
Arsenal need to win their final home game of the season against Everton
and hope bottom of the table Norwich can beat Tottenham.
[hubbub]
[Gonnella] Okay, last one of the season,
just going to hand it to Mikel for a minute.
Well, first of all, thank you all.
It's been a long journey again and a...
a very challenging one this season,
but I think that we have come a long way as a club.
What we've done together,
showing incredible unity between the staff, the players,
everybody involved from the club
and especially with our people,
which has been incredibly supportive throughout the season,
especially in difficult moments.
[melancholic music continues]
We've done it the way we predicted a year ago,
with a lot of young players,
with the senior players helping
and with our crowds again in our stadium
and with a real sense of connections around the place.
[fan] To be honest, at the start of the season, I was not expecting
to finish anywhere near the top 4.
So overall, like, I think we had a decent season.
[fan 2] If it's European League, Champions League,
I can't complain, I don't mind.
Of course I always remain positive for my team,
'cause I support them through the ups and downs.
[Arteta] We want to take the club to the next level.
Hopefully, in front of our people, we can live another great day.
[upbeat music]
[commentator] Things looking to get off to a good bright start.
Martinelli shot, oh, he's appealing for a handball. Penalty.
And Martinelli scores.
Sends Begovic the wrong way with a very nice penalty
and Arsenal lead 1-nil.
It's flicked on and in!
2-nil to Arsenal, turned in by Eddie Nketiah.
[Alexandre] We have the greatest job in the world, I think.
Sometimes, I know it's hard to remember this
because of different reason but still I think you have to love every day,
you have to enjoy every day
because we don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow.
[commentator] The bad news is that Tottenham are 2 up at Norwich,
so you can almost give up hope there, I think.
[Aaron] We've had some amazing times,
and obviously it's disappointing, but like we said,
once you step out over the summer, I think we'll look back
and we'll know it's a huge chance which we we've missed,
but it's also a season of progress.
[commentator] Here's Cédric. Oh, what a goal!
Cédric Soares.
[crowd cheering]
The fans, they are incredible.
It has been really, really special.
We want to be in European competitions, and I think we have the quality
and slowly, it's showing.
[commentator] It's gone through Gabriel, it's in.
Cédric has the assist, Gabriel has scored now, it's 4-1.
[Venkatesham] Sitting here now,
I think about finishing 8th in the Premier League, 2 years in a row
and to take the step forward,
to be qualified for the Europa League...
I think it's been a really successful season,
but of course with a bit of a tinge of disappointment
because we had done so well.
We'll still keep fighting right till the end.
[whistle]
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] There we have it, the final whistle goes
and Arsenal have run out very, very comfortable winners.
Mikel Arteta all smiles.
[Josh Kroenke] The club is really coming together,
I think we're poised for future success
because of the experiences a lot of these players
have gained along the way.
[crowd cheering]
[Ian Wright] You have to be philosophical
simply because the success this season was finishing 5th
and getting that progress.
[Arteta] Guys, after today, obviously, we're not gonna see each other
for a while so, the first thing I would like to say
is that I repeated it time and time again,
how proud I am and how lucky and how grateful I am
to work with you every single day.
Since the day that I arrived to today,
how I feel with you, guys, personally, emotionally,
professionally,
I don't know if I'm going to experience that in my career again.
For this group I feel so attached.
So first of all I want to say thank you,
thank you for all the... especially the difficult moments,
because I have enjoyed the difficult moments.
We have raised expectations that were really difficult to fulfil,
and I know for me the... [imitates stabbing noise]
...has been the way we gave it away.
We can give it away but the way is what has been really painful
and will probably stay there for a long time.
You guys deserve some good holidays.
You deserve my gratitude
and I think I talk on behalf of all the staff,
for the way you are as a people, guys, how you accepted decisions,
how you accepted sometimes mistakes that I can make or the club can make,
but how you stick together...
So again, thank you so much.
I hope you enjoy your holidays, your break,
because you deserve it, guys, and I see you all next season, okay?
-Thank you. -[clapping]
[upbeat music]
[Steve Round] Let's go, boys.
[coach] Let's go, boys. Phones away and let's go.
[crowd cheering]
[upbeat music continues]
["All or Nothing" by Enny]
[crowd cheering]
[commentator] An astonishing save!
["All or Nothing" by Enny continues]
[crowd cheering]
[shouting]
[laughing]
[crowd cheering]
["All or Nothing" by Enny continues]
[crowd chanting]
[tense music]