The stadium's security processes appeared to have been overwhelmed by the crowd numbers, leaving many fans waiting outside the ground for hours
Some fans finally managed to get into the ground at half-time.Supporter Colm Lacey told the Associated Press that he had seen"children crying, people trapped" outside the entrances.
Sky correspondent James Matthews is at the game and said:"It was Liverpool's biggest night of the season but, whatever happened on the pitch, it was a shambles off it. "Big football occasions attract large numbers of ticketless opportunists and there was clearly a police effort to weed them out. "All this on European club football's biggest occasion - a night which was, for too many, the showpiece that showed football at its worst."
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