London Evening Standard reporter James Olley tweeted: “Met Police say extra officers at Emirates.
“Spokesman, ‘A policing plan is in place for the game.
“‘Additional officers have been deployed.’”
BT Sport pundit and former Gunner Martin Keown was critical of the police and accused them of being ill-prepared for the game.
“When you get large groups of people like this travelling to Europe you think the authorities would be aware,” Keown said.
“They were going to the Emirates, they wanted to be there, it must have been under-policed.
“Its almost a ridiculous situation because there is only an allocation for 3000 tickets.
“They’ve now got to try and police 17,000 fans outside the ground!”
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