Arsenal squandered their hopes of playing Champions League football next season after they were held to a 1-1 draw against Brighton at the Emirates on Sunday.The Gunners needed to win both of their remaining games for a chance to get into the top four and even then their qualification would depend on London rivals, Chelsea.Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's early opener appeared to set the course for a crucial win for Arsenal but a penalty by Glenn Murray equalised the score.The Gunners' only hope at a return to the Champions League is the Europa League, where they are set to face Valencia in the second leg of their semi-final fixture. Unai Emery's men established a 3-1 win over the La Liga outfit in the first leg and will hope to secure a place in the final with an advantageous result in the closing leg.Speaking after the game, Emery said, "I think we worked and tried but didn’t get the result for taking chances next week. Now our way is to be strong in our focus for Thursday.""We are going to be stronger in our mentality to prepare for the match on Thursday. And we are going to give the best individual and collective performances in the last matches, above all [against] Burnley.""I think we can speak now about the different situations and issues in the season, but it's better to take the focus for Thursday against Valencia - and we are going to do the analysis also.""We knew it is going to be difficult but our focus is now the Europa League. We have the opportunity in the Europa League to do something important and we will try and do that.""On Thursday we have the second leg and have this one title to play for. It's a way to get into the Champions League. Above all, for us the Premier League is the first competition and we couldn't be in the top four."Twitter has since exploded with reactions to the news:When you spend 90 minutes of your day off watching Arsenal vs Brighton. pic.twitter.com/7t2365Qq3w— FootballJOE (@FootballJOE) May 5, 2019Watching Arsenal today pic.twitter.com/3n3kE8vyix— Men in Blazers (@MenInBlazers) May 6, 2019Three weeks ago Arsenal were favourites for top 4. Now they're favourites to play Europa league with Man United next seasonTeam like Arsenal 😢😢😩— Kelewele Joint 😋 (@Ankamagyimi) May 5, 2019Aaron Ramsey reminding Arsenal supporters they won’t be in the Champions League before walking out the door.😂😭🤣[@SingleMaltSuds]#THFC #COYSpic.twitter.com/0iQnnXcETd— Last Word On Spurs🎙 (@LastWordOnSpurs) May 5, 2019How funny would it be if Chelsea and Arsenal, the two Europa League teams that have been mocked constantly this season qualify to the Champions League and Spurs miss out along with United who already have?! 😂 😂 Brilliant!!— Younes H-Hamou (@youneshh) May 5, 2019Arsenal fans : we shall finish top four. Brighton : 😂😂😂😂 #ARSBHA pic.twitter.com/pmdRqtZk8b— Emmyton (@Emmyton5) May 5, 2019Petr Cech consoles Aaron Ramsey who had to sit through Arsenal's 1-1 draw with Brighton today pic.twitter.com/brX26GkdlX— arseblog (@arseblog) May 5, 2019The amount of money Arsenal have thrown away in the last 2 years is unbelievable. In another world, we're walking away with around £125m to reinvest in the team from Alexis, Ozil, Ramsey and Welbeck.In this one, we got an ageing Mkhi and Ozil on wages of over £500k a week.— Blahovic (@Blahovic) May 5, 2019Arsenal fans at the beginning of the season:'Torreira > Kante''Xhaka > Jorginho''Leno > Kepa''Emery > Sarri'Think it's safe to say that they were proved wrong once again by the best club in London...— FutbolChelsea (@FutbolCheIsea) May 5, 2019Arsenal went 22 games unbeaten this season. They went above us for 5 minutes and celebrated with dressing room selfies and in the streets, we have lost 13 games and they still finish below us. hahaahhahahahahhaahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahhahhahahahahhahahahahhahahahahahhahhaha— Daniel (@DanielLevyReal) May 5, 2019