Real Madrid defeats Liverpool in Champions League final
Reported organizational issues outside Stade de France, the site of Saturday’s Champions League final, resulted in multiple delays and attendee complaints of being tear-gassed. Many of those attendees, dressed in red, appeared to be Liverpool fans in videos shown across social media and during the CBS pregame broadcast.
Liverpool issued a statement about those problems during the final, saying the club was “hugely disappointed at the stadium entry issues and breakdown of the security perimeter that Liverpool fans faced this evening at Stade de France.”
“This is the greatest match in European football and supporters should not have to experience the scenes we have witnessed tonight,” it said in a statement. “We have officially requested a formal investigation into the causes of these unacceptable issues.”
After the final, UEFA announced that it will review the pregame incidents with the French police and the French Football Federation. It said in a statement that “the turnstiles at the Liverpool end became blocked by thousands of fans who had purchased fake tickets which did not work in the turnstiles” in the run-up to the match, creating a build-up of fans seeking entry.
“As numbers outside the stadium continued to build up after kick off,” the statement read, “the police dispersed them with tear gas and forced them away from the stadium.”
