Kevin Trapp: “It seemed like we were playing at home”
BARCELONA, 15 Apr. (SportsFinding) –
The coach of Eintracht Frankfurt, Oliver Glasner, praised his players for getting through to the semi-finals of the Europa League against FC Barcelona in a Camp Nou packed with German fans, for which he thanked his fans for achieving ” something unimaginable.”
“The praise is due to the players because they gave in from the start and the fans for having done something that had never happened before. A unique symbiosis,” Glasner said at the press conference on the historic night in Barcelona.
The technician praised the feat achieved in a plan carried out perfectly. “We can predict what we want, but what is decisive is what the players have in practice. Until the 85th minute they played very well. Many expected us to stay a little further back, but we had a lot of discipline”, admitted the coach.
“Nobody is going to make me forget tonight. I will remember my whole life until I die. I have seen a stadium full of white shirts. It has been very emotional. I am going to keep it to myself, all the emotions that I have experienced. I have told my players that at the end of the game I wanted to look them in the eye because they had given everything”, he added.
In the third goal of the Germans, Glasner approached the Barcelona bench, a situation that “may have been misunderstood”, for which he wanted to apologize to Barcelona for his reaction.
“We played against the fittest team in LaLiga. We knew that Barcelona had problems with our strength and speed. We made them play in areas where they didn’t create any danger for us. The goal was to give Busquets problems and everything went as planned “He expressed about what happened in the second leg of the quarterfinals.
TRAPP: “IT LOOKED LIKE WE WERE PLAYING AT HOME”
For his part, Eintracht’s German goalkeeper Kevin Trapp highlighted the atmosphere at the Camp Nou that cheered the ‘eagles’ thanks to the crowd of fans: “It seemed like we were playing at home, it was incredible. They helped us win the game. In the end we did it, it was a very nice moment”.
The goalkeeper was happy after managing to eliminate Barça, something “that cannot be expressed in words” after what he experienced in the culé fort. “Words cannot express what I feel here today. We have to believe in achieving it. We have carried out the plan that we had in mind,” he added.
“All the supporters have made possible what we have achieved.
It cannot be described, the support we have received in the stadium is incredible. Today’s match will be one of the highlights of my life,” he concluded.