Match 4 - GER : POR - LANNOY (FRA)

Saturday, 9 June - Lviv - 2:45 EST
Germany : Portugal
Referee: Stephane LANNOY (FRA)
Assistant referee: Frédéric Cano (FRA), Michael Annonier (FRA)
Additional assistant referee: Fredy Fautrel (FRA), Ruddy Buquet (FRA)
Fourth official: Marcin Borski (POL)
Reserve official: Marcin Borkowski (POL)
UEFA Delegate: Jozef Kliment (SVK)
UEFA Referee observer: David R. Elleray (ENG)

Lannoy has his full French quintet assisting him. The fourth official is Borski of Poland.

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Lannoy is most famous for sending of Kaka at WC10 in the Brazil v Cote d'Ivoire match. He also did Netherlands v Denmark at that tournament. He has, I think it's fair to say, a reputation for being one of the weaker Elite UEFA referees. That said, he keeps getting big assignments so it might be a case where his mistakes are scrutinized more heavily in the aftermath of the Kaka red card. Anyway, his recent major matches:

UCL: Real Madrid v CSKA (R16), Man City v Bayern, Chelsea v Bayer Leverkusen, Zenit v Shakhtar
EL: Atletico v Hannover (QF)
EURO 2012 qualifiers: Denmark v Norway, Netherlands v Sweden, Russia v Armenia

Lack of "situational awareness" is probably how you could sum up all of Lannoy's deficiencies. He knows the Laws and can even manage a game well overall, but in key moments, he gets tunnel vision. You see it with the advantage call. You see it with the wall management. And you see it all the way back to the Kaka incident.

As for the tackle on Neuer, I agree yellow is just. But he definitely got him with his studs, despite what Keller said. In a different situation, that could be red. It's an incredibly foolish tackle to make. Lannoy, out of position (through no fault of his own) had no real choice but to go yellow for control. Even if he thought it was red, there was no way to sell that. Yellow was the just result. I wonder if the AR helped at all.

Felt the only somewhat major miss (other than the lack of advantage call) was an elbow early, in front of the technical areas. He called the foul, on Alves I believe, but felt the fourth needs to give help there because it certainly had the hint of a caution--or at least a major talking-to.

Fans don't like it, but that is a GREAT call.

Not only that, but he went into his ankle with the ball 5+ yards gone already. It might have been a bit of a slip and there might not have been that much force, but any more violence in that and we could be talking red, as absurd as that might seem.

Ironically, the AAR was not and did not get up to the line. Being a yard off, he really didn't have the perfect angle. He got it right, but if that was closer, his positioning would have been a talking point.