A rotated team, which saw Ødegaard, Bukayo Saka and Myles Lewis-Skelly benched, took the lead just before the half-time interval. Ben White overlapped on the right wing, before his low cross to the near post was unexpectedly turned home by Kieran Tierney on his final appearance for the club.

Watch full replayBoth teams made plenty of changes as Kieran Tierney gave Arsenal the lead in the first half. Saints battled away and Ross Stewart scored his first goal for the club to make it 1-1, but Martin Odegaard jumped off the bench and won it late on.

The win confirmed Arsenal’s third straight second-place finish, marking only the fifth time in Premier League history a team has been runners-up three years in a row, with Gunners the first side to do