(CNN) Italian soccer team Inter Milan may have booked its place in the next round of the Europa League on Thursday but none of its fans were in the San Siro stadium to witness it.

The eerie match against Bulgarian side Ludogorets was ordered to be played behind closed doors as Italian authorities continue to grapple with the coronavirus outbreak

More than 650 cases of the virus have been confirmed in Italy so far with entire towns in quarantine across the north of the country.

The Ludogorets team arrived in Milan wearing medical face masks, needing to overturn a 2-0 deficit from the first leg.

However, Inter's Romelu Lukaku and Cristiano Biraghi canceled out Oliveira Souza's opening goal for the visitors as the fixture finished 4-1 on aggregate.

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