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Manchester United followers will face a collection of inconveniences tomorrow afternoon and night earlier than the Europa League first leg match towards Olympique Lyonnais.
The primary match will happen on the Groupama Stadium earlier than the return leg is performed at Outdated Trafford the next Thursday.
As all the time, United will take a major hoard of followers with them on their European journey.
Whereas the Europa League can typically throw up some arduous treks to Jap Europe, the 1,279 km between Manchester and Lyon is hardly a lot of a difficulty.
Nonetheless, The Each day Mail have reported that this journey might be removed from simple for United followers.
The paper experiences that, “native authorities in France have put in place quite a few restrictions on away followers that may make matchday a somewhat convoluted train earlier than a ball has even been kicked.”
“Each travelling fan has been mandated to gather a stadium wristband from the Eurexpo Convention Centre – round 10km away from Lyon’s Groupama Stadium – between 5pm and kick-off on the day of the sport.”
The supporters travelling to the stadium will solely be allowed entry to the away finish in the event that they arrive through the “designated Shuttle 1 Stadium buses” that depart from the Eurexpo.
Followers will not be too happy as many would have deliberate to benefit from the metropolis centre within the hours earlier than the match.
The membership responded that, “we recognize and apologise for the numerous inconvenience this can trigger to a few of your plans. Please be assured that the membership has fought onerous to scale back the affect on travelling followers, which initially concerned two assortment factors located throughout the town centre.”
Lyon additionally pressured comparable protocol on travelling Frankfurt and Bucharest supporters earlier than earlier Europa League contests this season.
One last slap within the face for United followers is that they should wait round 60 minutes earlier than they go away the stadium to be transported again to the Eurexpo.
This isn’t the primary time away followers may have needed to cope with inconveniences as final season in Turkiye, they needed to put up with UEFA’s incompetence and a collection of delays as they entered and left RAMS Park in November 2023.
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