You could have heard a pin drop inside the ZTE Arena in Zalaegerszeg on Monday night.
Every screech, squeal, instruction, insult and plea was amplified by the eerie silence. Even on a good night for Scotland, there was a reminder of how uninviting football matches without fans can be.
At half-time, you were tempted to strain your ears and listen for the sounds of despair coming from the Belarus dressing room.
Sergei Karpovic would have been forgiven if he’d been reduced to a quivering wreck by what we’d just witnessed. Forty-five minutes facing Ben Gannon-Doak can do that to a man.