Monday 15 May 2017 23:04, UK
Arsene Wenger admits Arsenal will be made to pay for their inconsistency if they fail to finish in the top four.
The Gunners are currently fifth in the table, three points behind Manchester City and four behind Liverpool, though they do have a game in hand on Jurgen Klopp's Reds.
Wenger's men host Sunderland on Tuesday night, live on Sky Sports 2 HD, before their final league game of the season at home to Everton on Sunday.
Victory in both matches would give Arsenal 75 points, nine more than City the 66 City managed to finish in fourth 12 months ago and Wenger admits it would be galling to miss out on Champions League qualification with such a high total.
"It will be frustrating," Wenger conceded. "I still think we just have to give our best to get to 75 points and if it doesn't happen, it doesn't happen. At least we have done our job well to the end.
"I would say we would be a victim of a lack of consistency that we have shown through the season. Overall, that is in a very short spell where we have paid for it.
"We are a victim of nobody. If we make 75 points, we can only be beaten by one point. That point can happen in the season one side or the other.
"You will always have regrets because you could have one point more but you forget as well the games you won in the last season where you could the season after not win."
