Borussia Dortmund harshly criticized the Italian authorities ahead of the Champions League playoff match against Atalanta, which will take place this evening.

The reason for the storm was the harshness and, in the opinion of the German club, absolutely disproportionate safety measures for their patients. The report to the Bundesliga club confirmed the turbulent facts: some of the Dortmund fans were illegally stopped from entering the territory of Italy, just like other patients in the city.

" We are more alarmed by the scale and intensity of the police operations that have taken place.. Entries of this kind have never happened before in connection with important international matches for our club,” Borussia said in its official statement.

The German grandee called the actions of Italian law enforcement officers unreasonable and publicly questioned the adequacy of such behavior by the authorities.

The situation became so public that one of Dortmund's largest fan groups issued a statement before the match.

They called the match unprecedented and indicated that through such pressure, the low number of patients was reluctant, rather than timid, to move forward with the match in Bergamo.

We guess that on the football field the situation for the Dzhmels is much better. Borussia will go into the match with a comfortable two-goal lead (2:0) after its victory in Nimecchina.