The lack of celebration said almost everything. Alexandre Lacazette’s second equaliser of the game, deep into injury time, had rescued Arsenal from a calamitous outcome but the forward stood virtually motionless after jabbing in Gabriel Martinelli’s cross. It did nothing to stem the boos at the end of a match in which Southampton should have put Arsenal to bed and left Unai Emery’s tenure on the brink.
The visitors will rue their inability to follow goals from Danny Ings and James Ward-Prowse, the latter after his penalty had been saved, with a clincher and the frustration of their manager, Ralph Hasenhüttl, was visible as the players went off. But the audible unrest among an Arsenal fan base that cannot tolerate much more of this felt like much the bigger story.
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