Arsenal defender Rob Holding is not accepting blame for them finishing fifth in the Premier League last term.
A late collapse at the end of the season saw the Gunners slip out of the top four to Tottenham on the final day of the season.
The 26-year-old central defender was sent off in the crucial 3-0 loss to Spurs late in the campaign.
He said, per The Sun: "Of course I was disappointed with the way the season finished but it didn't come down to just the Tottenham game.
"There was a stage when we were fourth in the table with games in hand and we were thinking 'we could do this'.
"But we lost five of our last ten games and we let it slip away.
"There were three games before Tottenham against Palace, Southampton and Brighton when we should really have finished it off but we dropped points.
"So people can say it was all down to that Tottenham result but if things had gone differently earlier on it wouldn't have even been an important game.
"The day after Tottenham I was taking the dog for a walk and thinking over and over again 'what could I have done differently?'
"I didn't want Son to have a free run so tried to make it a bit of a physical battle and even after that we could still have got into the top four if we hadn't lost our next game at Newcastle.
"But it is what it is. I can't dwell on it too much. We all have to move on."
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