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Huge interest in Augsburg over the Europa League draw against Liverpool temporarily crashed their website on Monday.

The last 32 tie is already being hotly anticipated in Germany and ESPN report that the FC Augsburg website went down within minutes under the weight of interest from fans trying to get tickets.

A message on the website about the European draw now reads: “FC Augsburg will announce info on ticket sales separately. We ask you to abstain from requests in writing or over the phone as these cannot be edited”.

Reacting to the draw on their Twitter feed yesterday, Augsburg said: “The madness never ends”.

That was perhaps a reference back to their great escape from the group which was dubbed “the Miracle of Belgrade” in the German press after Raul Bobadilla’s last gasp goal produced the 3-1 win required for qualification in Serbia.

Augsburg play in the 30,000 capacity WWK Arena although this is reduced in European games to around 26,000.

They are in their first ever European campaign having finished what was regarded as an incredible fifth in the Bundesliga last year.

German football expert Archie Rhind-Tutt told the ECHO that Liverpool can expect a lively atmosphere on February 18 next year.

He said: “The stadium atmosphere is one of the best in the Bundesliga, the fans are tightly packed in and it’s relatively full a lot of the time.

”Against Athletic Bilbao, they produced choreography right round the stadium. They’re taking this European run very seriously and the Liverpool game will be a very big occasion."