Alexis Sanchez scored his first goal for the club as Arsenal sealed their place in the Champions League group stage with a dramatic, almost unbearably tense victory in north London.
The Gunners have now won 13 of the 14 play-off ties they have played in their history - but none can surely have been as closely-fought and as tight as this one.
Having taken the lead on the stroke of half-time through Alexis, the Gunners dominated the second half and spurned a host of opportunities.
But the sending off of Mathieu Debuchy after 75 minutes for a second bookable offence put them on to the back foot - and the closing stages were agonising.
But after four, long tension-fuelled minutes of injury time, which included a huge chance for Demba Ba, the final whistle went to seal Arsenal’s 17th successive qualification for the group stage.
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