Chelsea striker Olivier Giroud on Arsene Wenger: "Arsene Wenger deserves a great tribute for all he has achieved in his Arsenal career. I hope he finds a new challenge too, because I know he is still hungry to win competitions. I just want to pay tribute to him."

The long list of farewells has started at the Emirates.

Sir Chips Keswick - the club's amusingly-named chairman - is on the pitch doling out commemorative little cannons to:

Vic Akers - long-serving kitman and the founder of the Arsenal Ladies team.

Alex Scott - Arsenal and England women's full-back, who is hanging up her boots at the end of this season

Per Mertesacker - immensely popular club captain who is retiring to take up a role with the academy

Arsene Wenger waits in the wings...

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Chelsea

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Chelsea goalscorer Olivier Giroud: "I know when Victor [Moses] doesn't cross the ball at first he's going to go on his right, so I had to be ready at the front post and luckily I finished it.

"David Luiz is a good friend, so I was very pleased to dedicate him this goal because he is going through a tough period and he is coming back."

Chelsea's Man of the Match Eden Hazard: "Massive, massive result. It is a big win so we can try to be in the top four at the end of the season. We want something big at the season, so when you win games like this it's good for the whole team.

"[Giroud] is easy to find on the pitch, when you are a small player like me, it's nice to have a target man like him. He missed a couple but in the end he scored and we won the game so it's okay.

"If we win our last two games I think we will make the top four, it is not in our own hands, but we will give everything.

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You've still got until 30 minutes after the full-time whistle to rate the players from the Chelsea v Liverpool game.

Head over here to rate them out of 10.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

It was a well managed victory for Chelsea. They got in front but they didn't try and get the second goal. It was below-par from Liverpool and on the day Chelsea probably deserved the win.

Sam: All this talk of parking the bus and pretty sure Chelsea have had as many shots as Liverpool. Brilliant defensive performance and clinical where they needed to be.

Amir: Liverpool's season in danger of finishing in a huge anticlimax. Need to win one of the two remaining games just qualify for next years Champions League.

Chelsea, at home to Huddersfield on Wednesday and away to Newcastle on Sunday, would finish above Liverpool if they win both their remaining games and the Reds fail to beat Brighton at Anfield on the final day.

Tottenham are a point behind Liverpool and, like Chelsea, have a game in hand.

Newcastle and Leicester at home are Spurs' final games.

Bradley J: Want to know where this arsenal has been all season? Where has this support all season? Fans get behind the team and they play better. Toxic attitude causes lack of motivation and performance.

Cal: If ever a match highlighted the gulf in class between the top six and the rest of the league... (Burnley are seventh).

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With the game over, how would you rate both sets of players in the Chelsea v Liverpool game?

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The Blues breath life their top-four hopes alive.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

The pressure was there but Solanke has to hit the target.

Liverpool fans hold their heads in the away section.

Dominic Solanke gets up to a Sadio Mane cross but, under heavy pressure from Antonio Rudiger, his header drifts wide.

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The final whistle blows and Arsene Wenger is straight down the tunnel.

But that is not a surprisingly downbeat send-off there is all sort of pomp and ceremony still to come.

Any time left for Liverpool to pull something out of the fire?

Henrikh Mkhitaryan leaves the ball buzzing like a tuning fork with a vicious drive that smacks the woodwork.

It has been a coconut shy for Arsenal at times.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

When you have shown standards like you have all season, it will be frustrating for Jurgen Klopp.

Alberto Moreno replaces James Milner in Liverpool's final change.

Davide Zappacosta comes on for the excellent Victor Moses in a Chelsea change.

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Arsenal are pressing for a sixth, but Pierre Emerick Aubameyang's square ball is just a little behind an on-bombing Aaron Ramsey.

And then Per Mertesacker wins a header in the opposition box to cheers, but there is no end product.

Tim: Got to love Arsenal. Always brilliant when it doesn't matter, always flakey when it does.

Alan: If Arsene had said he was going to leave at the beginning of the season, do you think Arsenal would have played this well all year?

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

Hazard has been by far and away the best player on the field today.