Rice: Arsenal must live with this title disappointment

Midfield star Declan Rice has told Arsenal to live with the feeling of disappointment this season.

The Gunners put in a terrific campaign in the Premier League, but finished two points shy of champions Manchester City.

For the second successive season, the Gunners were runners up in the Premier League.

This weekend, Rice said: "The last few weeks have been such a whirlwind in terms of the emotions, the feelings we've had, watching other games, playing our games. It's not something I want to experience again, but it's an experience I'm so grateful to have had being in my first title race.

"It's been so special. To not win it is gutting, but we can't rely on other teams to help us out. We have to look back on ourselves and games where we dropped points. That is ultimately where we've lost the league, but we'll be back.

"We're really confident as a group and you see the manager has full control of everything. I'm sure we'll be stronger in the summer. There were a few of us walking around at the end there and we said that feeling we have now in our stomach, of losing out on a title and seeing them lift it again, starting tomorrow and going through the summer, we need to have that feeling of what today feels like.

"They (City) are four in a row so now if you want to win the Premier League and be hungry, you need to live with this feeling and we don't want to feel this again. We see our fans, how everything was set up, we wanted to enjoy this moment with them, but look, we'll go again."