Mikel Arteta's Gunners must win the FA Cup final against Chelsea on August 1 to qualify for the Europa League.
Arsenal Granit Xhaka says their Premier League defeat to Aston Villa on Tuesday night means there is more pressure on them to win the FA Cup.
The Gunners fell to a narrow defeat at Villa Park last night as Trezeguet's 27th-minute strike put the game to bed.
However, midfielder Xhaka has challenged his teammates to step up after the loss to Villa confirmed they'll be finishing outside the top six for the first time in 25 years and must win the FA Cup final against Chelsea on August 1 to qualify for the Europa League.
"In my opinion, you can't come here and play like this. It's not good enough and you can't play with this mentality," he told the club's website.
"It was not enough to take something from [the game] and we knew if we won and then won the last game as well we could have got into the Europa League.
"But now we have to win the FA Cup and we have more pressure. But we will do everything to win the FA Cup now.
"I think it was Aston Villa, their fight, they put everything out in each half and in my opinion they deserved the three points."
Arsenal are tenth in the English top-flight table and the highest they can finish is eighth and that is if they seal a win in their final Premier League match of the campaign against relegation-threatened Watford at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
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