As he savoured his own team’s moment of history amid wild celebrations similar to those taking place 900 miles away at Ibrox, Eintracht Frankfurt president Peter Fischer summed up the Europa League Final.
“Now to the final against Glasgow,” he said: “Traditional team against traditional team. Tremendous!”
And Fischer encapsulated the feelings of many football fans as the teams who will contest UEFA’s second tier competition defied the odds to make it to the Ramon Sanchez-Pizjuan Stadium on May 18.