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Tashan Deniran-Alleyne

What Arsenal need to do to guarantee Champions League football after Chelsea and Tottenham win

We are now into the final week of the 2021/22 Premier League season and Arsenal's hopes of qualifying for the Champions League are very much alive and there's still a chance to claim the title of 'London's best'.

With Europa League football already guaranteed, the Gunners met their target for the campaign with a few games to spare. But manager Mikel Arteta doesn't want his side to settle for finishing fifth - which would be the club's highest finish since his appointment in December 2019.

"No. We want to be playing in the Champions League, and that’s the end," the Spaniard told reporters when asked if fifth place would be cause for celebration. "We’ve come so far. It’s in our hands and we want to now capitalise on that and the excitement and the opportunity’s there, and we will really want to go for it."

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