Summary

  • Arsenal must win to have any chance of the top four

  • Even then, they need Liverpool and Man City to slip up

  • Gunners have not missed Champions League for 20 years

  • Barkley on the bench for Everton

Live Reporting

Stephan Shemilt

  1. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    I tell you what, Ashley Williams is a lucky boy. A trip on Danny Welbeck after already being booked. After a conflab involving pretty much every player on the field, Michael Oliver keeps his cards in his pocket.

    Meanwhile...

  2. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Kevin Kilbane
    Former Everton & West Brom winger on Football Focus

    The weight of Gabriel's body is falling on his knee and it looks a bad one.

  3. SUBSTITUTION

    Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Gabriel is being carried off. It was a poor challenge, in truth, Gabriel wrapping his legs around Enner Valencia, but coming off worse. Per Mertesacker is on.

  4. goal

    GOAL - Liverpool 2-0 Middlesbrough

    Philippe Coutinho

    And the collective frown is finally turning around at Anfield.

    Philippe Coutinho lines up his effort and sends a low skidding effort round the wall and inside Brad Guzan's far post.

    The keeper was unsighted, but down slowly anyway.

    The whole atmosphere has lifted.

    Liverpool celebrateReuters

  5. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    The big defender has his head in his hands. There's worse news for the Gunners, too...

  6. ouch!

    Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Now, what's happened here? Gabriel has gone in on Enner Valencia and stayed down, clutching his knee. There are calls for a stretcher...

    Gabriel gets taken off on a stretcherReuters

  7. Phil McNulty
    BBC Sport chief football writer at Emirates Stadium

    Atmosphere inside Emirates Stadium is a little subdued now - suspect the news from Anfield has dampened any hopes that relegated Middlesbrough might pull off a shock at Anfield.

  8. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Could have been three! Danny Welbeck denied by Joel Robles, Mesut Ozil then denied on the rebound by the Everton keeper. Alexis Sanchez was pulling the strings. The man is a puppeteer.

  9. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Martin Keown
    Former Arsenal defender on Football Focus

    Koscielny will regret that for the rest of his career, he will now miss the FA Cup final. Wenger's got other replacements but nobody as good as Koscielny.

    It happens, you can't do anything about it now. It was stupid but he isn't that type of player.

  10. SUBSTITUTION

    Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Everton make a change. Gareth Barry on, Idrissa Gueye off. Back under way...

  11. Get Involved

    #bbcfootball

    AbhieSpeaks: I'd rather have Arsenal finish 4th than see Liverpool. They deserve nothing.

  12. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Not really. There's the noise of half-time caviar being munched and Prosecco being sloshed.

  13. Get Involved

    #bbcfootball

    Sarah Deane: Is there a "nervous, eerie silence" around the Emirates right now, then? We need to know.

  14. As it stands

    Liverpool into the Champions League

    ..

  15. HALF-TIME

    Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Arsenal lead, but the Emirates is deflated with news of that Liverpool goal.

    At half-time, the Gunners are not making the top four.

  16. goal

    GOAL - Liverpool 1-0 Middlesbrough

    Gini Wijnaldum (45 mins)

    Relief rips around Anfield.

    Gini Wijnaldum bursts into the box, takes a touch to steady himself and then lets rip with an absolute blockbuster.

    It flashes past Brad Guzan and inside his near post before the Boro keeper has time to flinch.

    Jurgen Klopp is bent double with relief, clenching both fists and every facial muscle he has.

    Gini WijnaldumReuters

  17. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Remember how I said it was goalless at Anfield?

  18. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    Martin Keown
    Former Arsenal defender on Football Focus

    Koeman has put Barkley on and it has opened up even further and Arsenal are doing really well going forward. If they were to score though, Everton, to help their Merseyside rivals, it will get very hairy at the Emirates.

  19. Arsenal 2-0 Everton

    As half-time approaches, it's still Arsenal that look the more likely. In the Emirates sunshine, it's open, with Hector Bellerin covering miles on the Arsenal right.

    It feels like most eyes are on Anfield, where it remains goalless.

  20. goal

    GOAL - Watford 0-4 Man City

    Fernandinho

    FernandinhoReuters

    If Walter Mazzarri hadn't already been sacked then he would have been fired at half-time. This is a shambles.

    But...City have been majestic. Fernandinho wriggles through some weak challenges in the home penalty area, keeping his balance - and his head - to fire in low from six yards.

    City have decided to leave the final-day drama to Liverpool and Arsenal.

    FernandinhoReuters