Everyone’s saying the same thing about Arsenal’s final Europa League group game

Funnily enough, a Europa League dead rubber against the best football club from Belarus didn't prove to be much of a crowd-puller at The Emirates on Thursday night.

With Arsenal already securing qualification to the knockout stages of the competition weeks ago, their final group game against BATE Borisov was a decent opportunity for Arsene Wenger to field some of his squad players; maybe a few youngsters, too. As a result, the game was played in front of fewer people than were in your class at primary school. Or at least that's how it seemed... Though no official figures were doing the rounds at the time of writing, it was widely reported that this was the lowest attendance ever for a game at The Emirates since the stadium was built. Plenty of those that bothered to watch BT Sport's coverage of the game were surprised by the sight of so many vacant seats, many of them commenting on it on social media. https://twitter.com/_KieranGrant_/status/938862906631950336 https://twitter.com/danielwilks10/status/938867872763383808 https://twitter.com/BadInfluenceS36/status/938863492051931142 https://twitter.com/iwheaton/status/938862910440435713 https://twitter.com/TheStuartWilkie/status/938862768131903488 https://twitter.com/johnfer7/status/938861916470030336 https://twitter.com/JacobsPete/status/938861377594298368 https://twitter.com/Pier_C_1/status/938863610255806469 Arsenal weekend defeat to Manchester United (which attracted a considerably bigger crowd) leaves them fifth in the Premier League table, already 15 points behind leaders, Manchester City.