Some 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans take Barcelona

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Eintracht fans, in the vicinity of the Camp Nou.ALBERT GEA (REUTERS)

It is the first time that Eintracht Frankfurt has visited the Camp Nou and the fans of the German team flocked to Barcelona to support their team.

Between 25,000 and 30,000 Eintracht fans, according to police sources, were noted throughout Thursday in the Catalan capital, which even caused blockages in the arteries near the Barça stadium, which had to be partially cut within the traffic control device German fans.

The massive displacement of the Eintracht fans surprised the regional police, who expected between 10,000 and 15,000 followers of the German team.

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Ter Stegen, Ronald Araújo, Eric Garcia (Luuk de Jong, min. 69), Óscar Mingueza (Sergiño Dest, min. 61), Alba, Pedri (Frenkie De Jong, min. 45), Gavi, Busquets, Aubameyang (Adama Traoré , minute 61), Ousmane Dembélé and Ferrán Torres

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Trapp, Obite Ndicka, Almamy Touré, Hinteregger, Ansgar Knauff, Rode, Kristijan Jakic, Filip Kostic, Daichi Kamada, Jesper Lindstrom and Santos Borré

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3: Filip Kostic.

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35: Santos Borre.

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66: Philip Kostic.

Referee

Artur Manuel Soares Dias

Yellow cards Eric Garcia (min. 2), Kristijan Jakic (min. 23) and Gavi (min. 27)

The main concern of the police authorities was the 5,000 fans who traveled without a ticket and many others who had purchased tickets on a private basis, outside the package intended for visiting fans and, therefore, with access to scattered locations in the Barça stadium.

When the gates to the Camp Nou opened, Eintracht fans quickly filled their 5,000 allotted seats in the third tier.

The rest have been located both in the stands and in the south goal and north goal.

More information

Barcelona - Eintracht, the match of the Europa League

Direct flights between Frankfurt and Barcelona sold out several days ago, as well as all those that made a stopover in Dusseldorf, Munich and Stuttgart.

UEFA regulations stipulate that 5% of the capacity must be reserved for visiting fans, but the German fans challenged the control of that percentage to support their team in greater numbers.

At the beginning of the second half, the culés fans from the animation stands left their seats for 10 minutes in protest at the massive presence of German supporters, who staged several controversial episodes smoking and lighting flares among other things.

The culé fans showed their discontent towards Joan Laporta's box for understanding that the club had left them unprotected due to the mismanagement of ticket sales for the match.

On Wednesday, the first Eintracht Frankfurt fans to arrive in Barcelona already invaded the entertainment and hospitality venues on Las Ramblas and other emblematic places in the city and some 300 of them even went to the Nou Sardenya stadium, taking advantage of free admission, to encourage Europa in their match against Huesca B (corresponding to matchday 26 of group 3 of the RFEF Second Division), a match in which the Barcelonans lost 0-3.

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