In what are likely the final remnants of Aaron Ramsdale’s Arsenal career, what a sorry ending.
An ending which, bar an injury to David Raya, caps off a season turbulent on a personal note, his battles on the pitch proving as stubborn as those within his own head.
It could, of course, have been much worse if Kai Havertz had not come to the rescue with an 86th-minute headed winner to see off Brentford on Saturday.
The damage had been done, though. As Gabriel’s pass trickled along the floor to Ramsdale in the fourth minute of first-half injury-time, the goalkeeper’s right leg cocked back pistol-like for an age, Yoane Wissa rapidly closed in.