It was “embarrassing and shameful” that 30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans were able to get into the Camp Nou for Thursday’s Europa League quarter-final, even though the away fans were only given 5,000 tickets. This is what Barcelona president Joan Laporta said.
After the winger Filip Kostic scored two goals in a 3-2 victory, the German team knocked Barca out of the competition. Eintracht won 4-3 on the night and will play West Ham in the semi-finals.
Barcelona thought there would be a lot of people at the stadium. ESPN said there were close to 30,000 Eintracht fans in the crowd of 79,468.
He told Barça TV: “Frankly, what happened today makes me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I don’t want to be like that.” The other team had a lot more fans than us. A lot of things have gone wrong.
Our goal is to avoid certain situations, but now we’ll have to be a lot more careful. We can’t let these things happen.
Xavi Hernandez called the situation a “miscalculation” and said it didn’t help his team, which lost for the first time in 16 games in all competitions. He said it didn’t help them.
If we didn’t do well on the field because of this, “logically, this could have hurt us,” Xavi said at a press conference on Wednesday. “We’ve tried to pay attention to the game, but we haven’t been very good.” It has nothing to do with either one of them. It’s not a reason.
But on the field, we haven’t been good, and we haven’t fought.