Barcelona livid as 20,000 Frankfurt fans dominate Nou Camp

Barcelona were left fuming after a reported 20,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans took over the Nou Camp as the Spanish giants exited from the Europa League at the quarter-final stage.

“What is clear is that it is an error, a calculation error, a planning error,” said Barcelona coach Xavi. “It is very clear that playing at home, this can’t happen to us.

“I thank the Barcelona fans who have cone and encouraged their team a lot; it’s a pity that we can’t give them victory and qualification for the semi-finals.

“It’s a miscalculation and the club are looking at it. Let’s see what happened. The squad also wants an explanation. Let’s see what happened.”

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Ronald Araujo added to Movistar+: “I’m surprised there are so many German fans in the stadium. The club will have to look at that.”

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Later, club president Joan Laporta said: “We are worried about the fact that today a big shame happened which can’t happen again. We have a large part of the information at hand of what happened, we need to time to process this and we will take the appropriate measures but it’s shameful what happened.”

30,000 Eintracht Frankfurt fans marching through Barcelona on their way to the Camp Nou. All in white.

What a sight. #SGE #FCBSGE pic.twitter.com/OXw6Vunm75

— Felix Tamsut (@ftamsut) April 14, 2022

The bigger shame was surely that Barcelona lost 3-2 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt to exit the Europa League, though Xavi played down the ‘failure’