Barça President Joan Laporta criticizes the allocation of tickets at the Camp Nou to fans of Eintracht Frankfurt

You have “a lot of information about what happened and we need time to go through it. Then we will take action, we will explain it and it will never happen again because it is a scandal,” said the President Ask why so many Barcelona supporters didn’t use their annual tickets.

Because only then could the Frankfurters occupy the free places. Around 25,000 Eintracht fans were probably in the stadium in the end, reported Frankfurt’s sports director Markus Krösche on “RTL”.

A total of almost 85,000 spectators were at the Camp Nou. Actually, only 5,000 tickets would have been available to the guests.

Barcelona announced that from now on “they will be stricter and check what was allowed to avoid this in the future. We experienced an undesirable situation. As a Barça fan, I’m ashamed and I’m really sorry for what I saw have.”

Xavi on Camp Nou situation: ‘It was disappointing’

Barcelona coach Xavi wasn’t exactly happy with the situation at home at Camp Nou either. Frankfurt have themselves in the quarter-final second leg of the Europa League “felt like at home”. The 42-year-old continued: “Of course that didn’t help. It’s a planning error.”

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“We want to know what happened. If we play at home, it can’t happen,” said Xavi. The former pro likened the situation to a final where half the stadium is for one team and the other half for the other team. “That was disappointing,” he explained.

Frankfurt board member Axel Hellmann, on the other hand, defended those responsible at Barcelona. “FC Barcelona is not to blame for that,” he said: “Our fans are the most creative when it comes to getting tickets in any way. It was like that and will always be like that.”

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