Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka was enraged after his side's 2-0 Premier League loss against Newcastle United, saying Arteta's team "don't merit" Champions League qualification after the harmful reverse.
A Ben White's own goal gave the Magpies the lead in a must-win match for the Gunners, before Bruno Guimaraes fixed Newcastle's triumph late on, leaving Arsenal's top four expectations barely holding on.
Arsenal is presently two points behind Tottenham in the standings with one match remaining, where Spurs should lose to Norwich City to permit the Gunners an opportunity to slip once again into the top four, courtesy of their goal difference.
The Gunners were thoroughly outmatched in the essential experience, creating simply 0.40 expected goal opportunity with Newcastle's 1.38, and just controlling 33% of the first-half match.
Addressing Sky Sports after the misfortune, Xhaka considered it a "calamity execution", blaming his colleagues for not following Arteta's course of action and attesting the team didn't merit European football after delivering such an awful appearance.
"So hard to track down the right words after the game," he said. "We came here to show an alternate game, however from the first minute until the 90th moment we didn't merit being on the pitch today.
"I can't make sense of why we didn't do what the game plan was. Not paying attention to the manager, [it] was a catastrophe performance.
"[If you] play like this you don't merit Champions League, don't for even a moment merit Europa League. Extremely difficult to take it right now, I don't have the foggiest idea why we are not doing what the manager is requesting from us."
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