A BBC reporter was pepper-sprayed outdoors the Stade de France as chaos irrupted earlier than the Champion's League remaining in Paris tonight.
Kick-off was delayed by over half-hour till 20.36 as 1000's of followers struggled to get contained in the stadium.
Supporters had been confronted with large queues after the Liverpool group bus was caught up in site visitors.
A bottle neck of followers constructed up on the streets outdoors the stadium on the outskirts of Paris, with many sharing images of locked gates of the stadium.
BBC Journalist Nick Parrott was outdoors the bottom in a private capability and had been caught up within the chaos, the Mirror experiences.
He advised BBC Radio 5 Reside: "I've simply been pepper-sprayed for the primary time in my life. I've been to the Champions League remaining earlier than and I've by no means been pepper-sprayed earlier than.
"I used to be outdoors Gate Y which has been opening and shutting repeatedly over the past hour and a half however no person has been going by way of. The safety employees on the opposite aspect superior and sprayed pepper spray.
"I've seen 10 followers making an attempt to climb over fences. Gate Z is open however there doesn't appear to be any motion getting into. I've by no means seen this type of chaos at any match I've been to in a private capability.
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"The Liverpool followers are attempting to maneuver themselves again from these gates to try to get in however the authorities appear to be doing nothing. I got here to get into the stadium at seven o'clock.
"I acquired by way of the outer perimeter the place there's crushing. I got here spherical in good time and it was fairly clear that we weren't going to get in earlier than 9 o'clock."
Together with the 1000's of Reds followers who had been caught up within the queues, Match of the Day presenter Lineker confirmed he too couldn't entry the stadium. The previous striker tweeted 16 minutes earlier than the unique scheduled 8pm kick-off time: "Discovering it unimaginable to get within the floor. This seems to be very harmful. Absolute carnage."
He went on to publish 23 minutes later, with 1000's of followers nonetheless caught outdoors the bottom at 8:10pm GMT: "I am unsure it is attainable to have a extra poorly organised occasion for those who tried. Completely shambolic and harmful. @UEFAcom". After which instantly wrote: "They've simply introduced one other 15-minute delay "due to the late arrival of followers". Utter b*******."