The ambition of this Arsenal team has been a contentious issue this season and Arsene Wenger wants them to prove their professionalism during our remaining fixtures.

The boss echoed the same comments he’s been making since January about only concentrating on our fixtures and not the Premier League table as a whole. Unfortunately, we’re now out of the title running and are throwing away needless points at every opportunity. With this in mind, maybe we should have concentrated more on the teams around us.

“It is important, of course,” Wenger said.

“We want to win our games, instead of focusing the table I think it is very important to focus on the process and quality of what we do.

“At the moment that is frustrating as there is a lot of quality in our game, but we have not exactly got the wins that we wanted. We have to focus on that.

“We want to finish as high as we can. It is not a consolation, it is about getting the best out of the team and focusing and giving everything in every single game. We need to show we have the mental level to compete until the end.

“Our job is to give absolutely the maximum until the last day of the season. You expect that from ambitious, professional football players.

“We have values at this club that we respect and that we have to respect until the last minute of the season.”

In theory, it’s sensible to just concentrate on the games you have. That way, every match you should be looking for the win. However, this tactic doesn’t seem to have worked with us and we’ve fallen out of the title race and can now only hope for a top four finish. Part of being in a competition is competing and to do that, we have to pay attention to our rivals. Maybe next season we can put this so-called professionalism into practice.