Here’s Paul Doyle’s report to enjoy ...

Right ... that’s all from me. Arsenal have not really progressed this season in the league. So well done everyone for joining me.

Brighton reaction ...

Emery adds that this is not the moment to talk about next season.

Not the most enlightening post-match interview.

Emery says: “We deserved to win but they are defensively very strong. We had our chances to score.

“We fight, we tried to win. Each match in the Premier League is difficult and this is the example.”

Aaron Ramsey is crying on the pitch. It shows how much the club means to him and that passion is something that is certainly lacking in this side.

Ramsey gets a warmer round of applause as the home fans wonder why the hell he is being allowed to leave for free. His absence was felt today.

Petr Cech saunters onto the turf in his full kit but without his head protector, which ruins it a little for me.

There are some Arsenal fans in the stands, as they watch some highlights on the big screen. The players looks pretty upset on the pitch as they are forced to go through this charade. Danny Welbeck is clapped onto the pitch to receive some award or other. One assumed he is off soon.

There is going to be a lap of appreciation but everyone has left. There might not be much point in this.

Why would anyone want to finish in the top four anywhere? The Europa League looks far more fun. That second leg in Valencia this week is even more important following this result but Arsenal will certainly need to be better in the Mestalla than they were today.

The Arsenal players look completely dejected at the final whistle, many sat on the pitch realising they have failed the fans in the Premier League this season. Boos ring round sections of the Emirates. The Brighton fans are bouncing at least, as Bissouma wanders around the pitch laughing.

Well .. there is it. Arsenal’s top four hopes are over, barring an incredible goal difference swing on the final day.

They really should have won the game today but the finishing was not good enough. Brighton defended superbly throughout. The visitors looks relieved of relegations pressure and had chances to win it themselves.

90+1 mins: Lacazette swings in a beautiful cross/shot which looked set to cause problems until Duffy got in the way to head clear.

90 mins: Ozil swings in a corner but Brighton clear.

Three minutes added on.

89 mins: Emery is urging everyone forward as Arsenal seek that winning goal. The ball goes over the top where Duffy and Aubameyang fight for the ball, with the former eventually winning the tussle, clearing for a thow in the process.

Lacazette drills a shot from 16 yards but Ryan does well. The French striker then goes down under pressure from March and appeals for a penalty. Nothing happening.

87 mins: Kolasinac swings in a cross from the left, Aubameyang rises to head home but he completely misses it. He seemed destined to score the winner there. Hilariously, Torreira smashes a shot from 30 yards which goes well over.

85 mins: How have they missed that? A cross from the right is headed at goal by March but Leno saves straight into Gross’ path but he completely miss-kicks it and sends the ball out to the corner flag when he was three yards out from an open goal.

Mustafi is booked for shouting at the referee, claiming Torreira had been fouled by Bissouma. He had not.

83 mins: Dunk and Duffy have been excellent again, mixing defensive discipline with a constant determination to throw their bodies on the line to stop all and sundry. The most recent sign of their quality being Dunk clearing a fierce Iwobi cross.

Andone shows what he is about by outrunning and overpowering Guendouzi to earn a free-kick after the Frenchman picked up the ball with his hands claiming he had been fouled. He had not.

81 mins: Bissouma gets into the box after dribbling down the left flank but is forced to turn round and concede a thrown-in next to the corner flag.

Arsenal really need to get something here otherwise their Premier League season is over!!!

79 mins: Andone likes to ruffle feathers, so the Arsenal defence might not fancy a final 15 minutes up against him. Brighton, however, do need to get the ball to him and they have barely been out of their own half for 10 minutes. To prove me wrong, Bernardo has a whack at goal from 30 yards but it was always rising and goes over.

77 mins: Lichtsteiner, Xhaka and Mkhitaryan all go off, replaced by Kolasinac, Guendouzi and Iwobi. Will that make the difference?

Murray is off and Andone on for Brighton.

76 mins: Arsenal are really going for it now! Lacazette is the latest to try his luck; he controls the ball in the box, flicks it up to volley but Ryan rushes out to smother the shot.

A triple Arsenal change is imminent ...

74 mins: Everything is happening in the Brighton box. The pressure should have taken its toll when Mkhitaryan pulls a cross back for a waiting Aubameyang in space but his shot from eight yards goes well wide when he really should have scored.

72 mins: Xhaka takes a short corner to Ozil, which Ryan comes to punch. A deeper second corner is headed away. Kolasinac is coming on ...

Desmond rightly pulls me up on the penalty: “I cannot figure out what was “pretty stupid” if the second penalty award was based on “a tangle of legs.”Was it the tangle of legs that was pretty stupid or the penalty award?”

I meant it was stupid to get himself into that position to let March go across and win an easy pen.

70 mins: Alan Smith realises the Arsenal bench is relatively thin on the ground when it comes to game-changers. Get Nketiah on?

Aubameyang tries to turn provide with a deep cross to the back post from the right but it goes well over Lacazette who was climbing all over Bruno. Frenetic stuff here.

68 mins: Arsenal really need to win this game and you can feel the nerves in the stands on the pitch. Something needs to change for Arsenal but there isn’t much on the bench to do that.

The Gunners get a couple of corners in a row, the second resulting in Xhaka finding Aubameyang at the back post but the striker volleys his shot well over.

66 mins: Arsenal have completely lost control of this game now. They need to get back on it in the centre of midfield but with Xhaka in there, it might not happen.

Originally, Per sent in a defence of Xhaka. This has been updated: “Ok then, he is useless.”

64 mins: Bernardo stops when facing his own goal, allowing Lichtsteiner to run through, only for the referee to eventually blow up, awarding a free-kick and a booking for the Arsenal man. The game is getting a touch feisty.

Peter says: “Your name sounds like Arsenal’s late season effort (sic) to win the Arsene Wenger Memorial Fourth Place Trophy: “Will Unwin”.”

Thanks ... ?

62 mins: If you like incompetent defending, then Arsenal really are the team for you. Utterly terrible stuff in the box. A deep cross was headed back from Murray but Monreal is able to clear, instead he calmly passes it straight to Bissouma on the edge but mass hysteria and some panic results in the ball being cleared.

The ex-Stockport striker keeps his calm from the spot to sidefoot the ball to Leno’s left as the goalkeepers goes the wrong way. Seems like it was more of a tangle of legs between Xhaka and March in the box but either way is was pretty stupid.

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60 mins: PENALTY! Xhaka after failing to have an impact with his own set-pieces decides to pulls back March in the box. Very silly from the Swiss international.

58 mins: The second half has been pretty poor so far. Well, very poor. Bitty, full of fouls and crap free-kick. Less of this, please.

Aubameyang tries to up the quality level with a clever first-time pass through the Brighton defence for Lacazette but Dunk reads it and volleys clear.

56 mins: Xhaka gets another free-kick to put his foot through after Sokratis is finally fouled by Murray. Needless to say, Xhaka hits the wall. I would advise he learns how to lift the ball rather than just kicking it really hard. Kicking it really hard is a great skill but useless when there is a barrier.

54 mins: Torreira is bundled over 30 yards from goal by property magnate Stephens. Naturally, Xhaka is confident he can smash it in from this distance. Sokratis throws himself to the ground next to the man-wall for no reason whatsoever, earning a disapproving look from the ref. Xhaka hits the wall.

51 mins: Some lovely play on the box between Murray and March results in the latter finding space just inside the area from where he drills a low shot but it’s straight at Leno who gets down well. It shows how dangerous Brighton can be.

49 mins: Torreira drives into the box and tries to find enough space to get his shot away but is hounded out by a swarm of defenders.

A throw down the line from Brighton is flicked on by Murray via Sokratis’ head and they earn a corner. It is swung in on top of the goalkeeper but Arsenal manage to clear the danger.

47 mins: Within seconds of kick-off Mustafi smashes a long ball over the top for Aubameyang who just fails to control the pass and it bounces out for a goal kick. There is plenty of shadow on the pitch now, so I can’t see what is going on. Quality will not be impacted by this.

Here we go again!

There is a change for Brighton: Knockaert on for Jahanbakhsh

How can Brighton change it? I think it could be time to give Locadia a go up top in place of Murray to see what happens.

Auba ...

Arsenal are doing what they need to by leading and they have certainly looked the better side from the whistle and really should have scored a few more. Ryan has done well to keep Arsenal out but Brighton have had a couple of chances of their own. All to play for in the second half.

45 mins: Mkhitaryan thwacks one from 25 yards towards the bottom corner, which Ryan pushes away but then the ball lands at the feet of Lacazette who toe pokes it towards the top corner, only to see it headed clear.

Two minutes added on.

44 mins: Bissouma lifts the ball over the top for Bruno to race onto but the veteran full-back is adjudged to be offside. The clue being that he got the wrong side of everyone.

42 mins: Ozil is very much floating where he wants behind the front two, his latest offering is an inswinging cross from the right for Lacazette but the striker fails to control it and Brighton clear.

40 mins: A Brighton attack breaks down on the edge of the Arsenal area, allowing the hosts to quickly break through Lacazette and then Aubameyang. The ball is worked out to Ozil on the left, from where he crosses for Aubameyang, who gets away a first-time shot away but Ryan gets down well with two hands to repel it. The Gabonese striker didn’t hit it cleanly which helped the goalkeeper but it was still a good save.

38 mins: Murray is not getting a sniff here. He has had one header on target but is not threatening the Arsenal defence. It might be better to bring on someone with a touch more pace who can stretch the backline. Locadia’s time to shine?

36 mins: March is looking pretty lively down the left and fancies himself against the ageing Lichsteiner, his latest endeavours sees him earn space on the flank but his cross is drilled straight into the arms of Leno.

A quick Arsenal break results in a corner from which Xhaka finds a diving Mustafi at the front post, the ball looks destined for the bottom corner but Ryan reacts superbly to palm is clear.

34 mins: Leno’s distribution today has left a lot to be desired. A couple of very stray clearances have put his side in danger. One of the reasons he is playing is due to his ability with the ball at his feet.

32 mins: Bernardo is invited to run from left-back into the Arsenal box before shifting it to March who has his cross turned behind. The resulting corner swings across the six-yard box but no one can get a touch on it and it bounces a yard wide of the post.

30 mins: Lacazette and Monreal exchange words after the latter sends in a misdirected cross, which heads out for a throw-in. That was a bit rubbish, to be fair.

Down the other end, March cuts in from the left and makes his way into the box but only succeeds in hitting the side netting.

Smith is back on reviewing the penalty incident but provides no clarity on the matter.

28 mins: Hughton wants his team to push further up, which is quite right, as they’re sitting on the edge of their own box inviting pressure from Arsenal.