An hour after the end of the game, in which, by the way, Barça consummated a new European failure, the Camp Nou was still in the middle of the inning. Not one of the approximately 25,000 Eintracht fans had moved from the venue. They filled the side of the Camp Nou and continued to celebrate a historic victory on the pitch and in the stands. The players celebrated with their fans and could not go to the locker room. Every time they entered, they came out again to the revelry of their fans, who seemed to want to stay and live at the Camp Nou Stadion.
Evidently, this institutional failure, which led Barça to have to play both games as a visitor, raised blisters among the own barcelonismo. And if that was not enough, the members of the Gol Norte Animation Stand went on a cheering strike at the beginning of the second half and did not enter until the tenth minute of it.
Joan Laporta, president of Barcelona, was blunt after the game: “We can’t avoid certain situations, but we can’t allow some things either. Now I can not specify. We are collecting security and ticketing information. Undesirable situations have occurred and we will take action. We will explain why. I feel ashamed as a Barcelona fan and I’m sorry. I have felt shame. This situation should not have occurred. This will never happen again. It was very serious.”
But the criticism also came from within the locker room. Coach Xavi Hernández stated that “it is evidence that it has not helped us. We expected 70,000 or 80,000 Catalans. And it looked like a final. It was a miscalculation of ours, yes. The club is checking what has happened.” Xavi’s words were supported by those of the technical secretary Jordi Cruyff, who, for his part, stated: “I don’t know if it was a home game, because there were many German fans. This is a bit beyond me, it’s up to someone else to answer that, but the feeling is sad. I have been very surprised. I don’t know if it will have had an influence, but we have to do an internal analysis to see how we can improve football. This illusion has been broken.”
The one who did not give it so much importance was Araújo who at the end of the match was surprised by what had happened, but did not blame this fact on the defeat: “25,000 Germans? It didn’t weigh us down. The club has to see that. Of course, and it is surprising that there were so many people from Eintracht”. HUntil hours before the match, Barcelona categorically defended that they had not sold tickets to German fans, but it is clear that, given the way the Camp Nou turned out, someone made a terrible mistake.