Everton F.C. has been a first-tier club for nearly seven decades, but its in a precarious position with the Premier League season nearing its end. © PA Images/Alamy Images Everton's Ben Godfrey. With a 2-1 loss to West Ham United on Sunday, Everton remains 17th on the Premier League table, just three points ahead of Watford and four ahead of Burnley to stay out of the relegation zone. Everton fell behind 1-0 in the first half against West Ham when Aaron Cresswell got the scoring started in the 32nd minute with a spectacular free-kick goal.
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BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Some Barcelona fans are expected to gather near the Camp Nou Stadium before the team’s Spanish league match on Monday to protest against the influx of Eintracht Frankfurt supporters for their Europa League game last week.
Only about 5,000 tickets were sold to the visiting fans but nearly 30,000 made it to the Camp Nou to see their team defeat the Catalan club and advance to the semifinals of the second-tier European competition.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — There could be another world-record crowd on hand to watch Barcelona's semifinal in the women's Champions League as the club announced Tuesday that all tickets for the match against Wolfsburg at the Camp Nou Stadium were picked up in just over 24 hours. A crowd of 91,553 watched Barcelona defeat Real Madrid in the quarterfinals last month at the Camp Nou, the biggest attendance ever for a women's soccer match. TheA crowd of 91,553 watched Barcelona defeat Real Madrid in the quarterfinals last month at the Camp Nou, the biggest attendance ever for a women's soccer match.
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The Barcelona fan group Nostra Ensenya said in a statement Sunday that the local supporters felt humiliated and accused the club’s officials of putting them in danger.
Barcelona President Joan Laporta said after the match that what happened was embarrassing.
A brutal defeat, but going out of the Cup is not even the worst part.FIRST HALF
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The club had already said it would investigate how so many German fans were able to buy tickets in sections reserved for the Barcelona supporters.
It would look into the possibility that some club members re-sold their tickets, and if the Germans were able to purchase entry on the internet despite being abroad.
The Eintracht fans filled the streets around the Camp Nou before the game and stayed to celebrate with their players long after the final whistle in the 3-2 win that secured the team's spot in the last four as a result of a 4-3 aggregate result.
Barcelona, second in the Spanish league, hosts relegation-threatened Cádiz on Monday. The Catalan club is 12 points behind leader Real Madrid, which visits third-place Sevilla on Sunday.
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Places at Camp Nou will now be nominative in European Cup .
© supplied by SOFOOT Action-Reaction. After seeing not far from 30,000 fans of the Eintracht Frankfurt Invading its forums Thursday evening in quarterfinals Back of C3 , FC Barcelona announces that the places for its European games at Camp Nou will now be nominative. A decision justified by President Joan Laporta at the press conference this Friday: "We did not want to set up this system of personal places, but it is necessary. We do not want what happened yesterday.