Chelsea wins the Europa League after battering Arsenal 4-1 in a strange old evening in Baku, consigning the Gunners to Europa League football next season.

Holding a major European final in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, is as welcome to the fans as a collection of cardamom seeds in a Ruby Murray, as the 2019 Europa League final between Chelsea and Arsenal attests.

The Olympic Stadium in Baku seats close to 70,000 people and  20,000 of them were empty as the two London clubs sent fewer than 10,000 fans between them due to the logistical nightmare of making the 2,500-mile journey.

Even those who made the journey struggled to make their voices heard with the stands so far away from pitchside, when Olivier Giroud sneaked ahead of Laurent Koscielny to head Chelsea into a 49th-minute lead, an eerie silence greeted it.