Lewis-Skelly dazzles but Arsenal endure cruel ending to thrillingly intense final | Barney Ronay

Some struggle to love Arteta’s side but they went toe-to-toe with Paris Saint-Germain in a gruelling contest to produce a high-grade decider

It always seemed likely, somehow, that Arsenal’s season was going to come down to Gabriel Magalhães and a set piece. Just not, ideally, like this.

Football does love a note of dramatic irony. And while Arsenal may have lost this Champions League final on penalties to Paris Saint-Germain after three brain-mangling hours of unresolved jab, smother and counter-thrust in the humid green bowl of the Puskas Arena, this was also a brilliant, high-grade, dizzyingly tense game of football.