Arsenal lost ground in the Premier League race for the top four as they were held to a 1-1 draw by Southampton at St Mary's Stadium on Sunday. Charlie Austin gave the home side the lead as early as the third minute to make things difficult for Arsene Wenger's side.Fraser Forster denied the Gunners a couple of times as the visitors dominated possession and it took a late Olivier Giroud header to give the north London side a point. The result sees them now sitting in fifth place - a point ahead of Tottenham Hotspur and Burnley.Here's how Twitter reacted to the game.Charlie Austin got the Saints off to a perfect start. And he continued to be a menacing presence as Arsenal played a high line.Charlie Austin has scored against Arsenal in every Premier League appearance against them:???? for QPR?? for Southampton pic.twitter.com/w4LQ60bwf2— BT Sport Score (@btsportscore) December 10, 2017Goals conceded away from home in 2017Man City 14Man Utd 14Chelsea 15Spurs 17Liverpool 27Arsenal 32Swansea 23Southampton 25Burnley 26Everton 28Bournemouth 29WBA 29— Orbinho (@Orbinho) December 10, 20175 minutes in and Charlie Austin could have had 3. Arsenal defence totally shambolicso far...— Jake Humphrey (@mrjakehumphrey) December 10, 20178 - Charlie Austin has scored eight goals in his last 11 Premier League starts for Southampton, including four in his last three. Saintly.— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 10, 2017During the last 2 weeks Laurent Koscielny has made Jesse Lingard & Charlie Austin look like Neymar & Messi. Give me a drunk Tony Adams any day. YE DA— Full Time Reaction (@FT_Reaction) December 10, 2017Did Charlie Austin just score after 3mins and 16seconds? pic.twitter.com/62VbS8Im5y— Ben Barrett (@benbarrett10) December 10, 2017Alexis Sanchez was criticised for a poor performance - even though he eventually got the assist for the equaliser.Alexis has to be Southampton's man of the match— LANCELOT (@_lancelot) December 10, 2017Alexis Sanchez is making a free transfer look expensive today.— Andrew Gaffney (@GaffneyVLC) December 10, 2017Only one man on Earth can hold an offense with both Mesut Özil and Alexandre Lacazette scoreless.Unfortunately, it's Alexis Sanchez.— Garden State Gooners (@GardenStGooners) December 10, 2017Özil chasing back after Alexis loses the ball, who is on the floor throwing his hands up— Sai** (@knickthoughts) December 10, 2017This is not about Alexis not giving his all for Arsenal, this is Alexis being Alexis. Overdoing the tiny bits!— Olivier Giroud? (@GoalivierGiroud) December 10, 2017Alexis bad passes v. Ozil, Ramsey, and Lacazette (combined) bad passes pic.twitter.com/dYxWIbLnKL— 7amkickoff (@7amkickoff) December 10, 2017After conceding, Arsenal struggled to break down Southampton who were resolute in defence.Arsenal have conceded 32 Premier League goals away from home in 2017. Only West Ham (35) & Stoke & Watford (33 each) have shipped more.— Orbinho (@Orbinho) December 10, 2017600 passes - 7 shots. Nowhere near incisive enough sadly.— Adrian Clarke (@adrianjclarke) December 10, 2017Southampton doing a good job of holding Arsenal at arm's length. Gunners haven't had a shot from inside the penalty area in the second half, nor an effort on target— Greg Lea (@GregLeaFootball) December 10, 2017pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass Southampton get a chance pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass pass #arsenal— Ian Stone (@iandstone) December 10, 2017Glad that the team had a week off to rest. It really shows.— medfly70 (@medfly70) December 10, 2017pic.twitter.com/33x9LkUg3h— Spain Is An Island (@bloatyhead) December 10, 2017But super-sub Olivier Giroud was on hand to provide a late equaliser. The Frenchman scored for the Gunners in the 88th minute to ensure they came away with a point.17 – No player has scored more substitute goals for a single Premier League team than Olivier Giroud – level with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Man Utd (17). Trademark.— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) December 10, 2017Giroud’s daddy calls him daddy.— Violent Gabriel (@GabrielKillYou) December 10, 2017The match reaction piece killer from Olivier Giroud. He's lucky he's handsome.— Daniel Storey (@danielstorey85) December 10, 2017I don't even have the strength to celebrate that goal I swear.— Danny Welbeck (@WelBeast) December 10, 2017If Man City win today Arsenal are closer to relegation zone than top of table...— Jake Humphrey (@mrjakehumphrey) December 10, 2017