Chelsea kick off their Fifa Club World Cup campaign against Los Angeles FC to tens of thousands of empty seats in Atlanta.
The top tier of Mercedes-Benz Stadium was closed - but other tiers were far from full
Chelsea kicked off their Fifa Club World Cup campaign against Los Angeles FC to tens of thousands of empty seats in Atlanta.
The game started at 3pm local time on a working Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The attendance was announced as 22,137, in a ground which can hold 71,000 spectators - though the entire top tier was closed.
Sources had told the BBC that Fifa was expecting a crowd of about 26,000.
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