A second Portuguese invasion of Milan in less than two months looms. After the Italian city felt the impact of nearly five thousand Porto supporters on March 22 – Italy’s 1-0 victory in the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League – now the red wave will be to flood the Italian city who will host on Wednesday at the Giuseppe Meazza quarter-final second leg. UEFA Champions League between Inter and Benfica.
Even the red fans were forced to deal with an unprecedented crisis in the era of Roger Schmidt – unprecedented defeats three in a row and the second precisely with the trans-Albanian formation, in Luz, in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals (0-2) – to forget the past and seem to be Focuses only on a qualification that would be epic, given the difficulty.
By the time tickets went on sale in early April, none of the knocks had happened, so the tickets were gone within half an hour. Almost five thousand tickets for Giuseppe Meazza, a venue that offers a much larger capacity for foreign fans than most stadiums – in the match against FC Porto, with the capacity practically sold out, more than 75 thousand people watched the match.
Benfiquistas with access to other areas of the stand than those reserved exclusively for Portuguese fans would be one issue to avoid, but the Red Sea would still be very visible in Milan, as fans from different parts of Europe would turn up, given that the movement of Portuguese immigrants would be felt.
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