A miserable week for Arsene Wenger ended with a third straight loss as Arsenal slumped to a 2-1 defeat at Brighton on Super Sunday
The future of the Arsenal manager has been under scrutiny after 3-0 defeats to Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final last Sunday and in the Premier League on Thursday night, and first-half goals from Lewis Dunk (7) and Glenn Murray (26) prompted more discontent among the away supporters at the Amex Stadium
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's 42nd-minute goal gave Wenger some hope after a woeful first-half performance, but his players were unable to find an equaliser and avoid a fourth straight away defeat in the Premier League
The loss leaves Arsenal in sixth place and 13 points behind Tottenham in fourth, while Brighton climb into the top half of the table
Arsenal were ragged and sloppy throughout the first half and fell behind in the seventh minute when Pascal Gross' corner was headed back across the six-yard box by Shane Duffy and - with Petr Cech out of position - Dunk responded quickest to stab home
A deserved Brighton second duly arrived on 26 minutes when Laurent Koscielny conceded possession and the ball was worked to Gross on the right
 His cross was met by Murray in the six-yard box and the ball squeezed beneath the body of Cech to prompt some 'Wenger out' chants in the away end
But somehow Arsenal halved the deficit with a scruffy goal two minutes before the break
 After Duffy had failed to clear, Alex Iwobi pulled the ball back to Granit Xhaka and his pass was smartly deflected beyond Mathew Ryan by the outside of Aubameyang's right foot
Incredibly, Arsenal were almost level on the stroke of half-time when Duffy thudded a header onto his own post and they also had the first major chance of the second period when Mesut Ozil's drive forced a save from Ryan
Sead Kolasinac, who was booked in the first half, avoided further punishment for a match-ending barge on Ezequiel Schelotto and, moments later, Jose Izquierdo shot just wide after driving at the Arsenal defence
The offside flag denied Brighton a third when Murray finished off a slick move late on, but his first-half header ultimately earned them a third straight home victory, while another insipid Arsenal display will prompt even more discussion over Wenger's position
Six goals in six games… not bad for a 34-year-old! The Brighton striker's first-half strike was his 11th of the season in the Premier League, which is more than any Arsenal player has managed in this campaign
 He was quick to praise his supply line at full-time, but Murray led the line superbly and, perhaps surprisingly, made more sprints than any other player on the pitch
 Maybe those work-weary legs explain why he opted to hold the ball up rather than run at goal when played clean through in the closing stages
"For us it is massive
 It is our first win against one of the top six
 We found it difficult
 We spoke before about how we had done really well against Manchester United, but that against everyone else we found it really difficult
" "It's not easy, but I have enough experience and enough desire to turn things around and I must say that, at the moment, when you need to stay in the game we are making a few mistakes at the wrong moments
 We have to stick together and focus
 We have no other solution
""That was a typical Arsenal performance
 They had 68 per cent of the ball today, so between box to box they dominated the ball, they are on the front foot all the time
"But in the two important areas, the box you defend in and the box you have to be brave and attack things, they came up short
 That is Arsenal, pretty, pretty, pretty, but not very effective
"Brighton travel to Everton on Saturday, March 10
 Meanwhile, Arsenal take on AC Milan in the first leg of their Europa League last-16 tie on Thursday night, before entertaining Watford at the Emirates on Sunday, March 11, a match you can see live on 
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