2019-2020 UEFA Referee Discussion [Rs]

Really curious about the first red card he received all the way back in 2006. It looks like Marcus Merk is the referee!

I really don't think that slight kick out is a red card anymore in today's game. Some one correct me if I'm wrong.

 

"Real Madrid plan to explore every possible avenue available in their bid to ensure that Sergio Ramos will be able to play the return of their Champions League Last 16 against Manchester City. Madrid will lodge an appeal to try and get the red card which Ramos received late in the game for scything Gabriel Jesús down. The City player went down and Italian match official Daniele Orsato sent the Real Madrid captain off. Orsato didn't review the move on VAR even though the move was open to interpretation.

Real Madrid hope that UEFA will overturn the red card which Sergio Ramos was shown so that Zidane will be able to count on the centre-back when the team attempts to turn the tie around at the Etihad on 17 March. For Eduardo Iturralde González, AS' resident referee and Cadena SER pundit, Ramos should not have been sent off: "For me, it's not a foul, Gabriel Jesus went looking for it and let him fall. If there was no foul in City's first goal, then this isn't a foul either"."

https://en.as.com/en/2020/02/27/football/1582825662_572483.html

 

That's right. Merk also has the honor of being one of two referees to have sent Messi off, and that on Messi's international debut!

 

Good luck with that.
In 2002 Feyenoord player Brett Emerton received a yellow card in the semi final from the ref for time waisting. Brett had put the ball down for a corner and was about to kick the ball, but was instructed by the linesman to put the ball more on the corner line. He did so, but then the ref gave him the card that costed him the final. Feyenoord protested for this injustice but the UEFA feckers sticked to the suspension, robbing a player from a once in a life time experience. The facts were on tape, yet they refused to set it right.

 

Talk about not moving on...

 

*sigh* And why doesn't the public understand VAR?

 

I'm really OK with the concept that the more cynical the act the less strenuous we should be in the obviousness of the denied goal or DOGSO. I know it is not in Law 12, but as the whole point was not eliminate or reduce cynical professional fouls, it certainly makes sense--and perhaps it now falls a bit under what soccer expects.

I agree it was not a VAR issue in either direction.

 

Refereeing highlights of FC Porto - Bayer Leverkusen, handled by new UEFA Elite referee István Kovács (Marco Di Bello) can be found by clicking this hyperlink.

 

that’s even longer than me with Collina.

 

To keep things going clubs have to play their e-teams!!

 

Valencia - Atalanta: HATEGAN (ROU) [Gil (POL)]
Leipzig - Tottenham: DEL CERRO GRANDE (ESP) [Martinez Munuera (ESP)]

PSG - Dortmund: TAYLOR (ENG) [Attwell (ENG)]
Liverpool - Atletico Madrid: MAKKELIE (NED) [Kamphuis (NED)]

 

Maybe Mateu Lahoz has indicated he'll retire after this summer. He got the Real Madrid-Barcelona match March 1. This Sunday, March 15, he gets the Seville derby (Sevilla-Real Betis). My guess is that he'll also get the Copa del Rey final next month (Real Sociedad-Athletic Bilbao, in effect a Basque derby).

 

Its been announced that PSG v Dortmund will be played behind closed doors.

 

That was probably the thinking when Oliver was put on Real Madrid v Juventus in 2018. He will most likely never see Juventus again in his career.

 

Maybe, but if the first leg in Turin had finished 1-1 or 2-1, I highly doubt Oliver would have gotten that second leg

 

A minor clarification - Referees and National FAs are informed, a couple of weeks ahead of time, that a specific Referee crew are being used on a specific Matchday. But they are not told what game they are on until 48-72 hours ahead of time (depending on travel logistics). Often the correct game can be deduced, as we do here, but the specific match notification is not officially issued to anyone until 48-72 hours before the match.

 

And he got that situation right too, crazy how it goes.

 

I think that's probably on a case by case basis round by round basis and season by season basis. Sometimes they have a plan on which crews to use for which leg as soon as the tie is announced.

Two seasons ago, they pretty much planned from the beginning of the season that Mazic was going to the UCL Final and kept him out entirely of the knockout stages.

I don't think there is a set rule.

Other times they either wait to see how the first leg goes and decide on the second leg or they make changes to the assignments depending on how the first leg went.

We'll never know the answer, but I'm pretty sure the plan was not for Frank De Bleeckere to referee the second leg of the 2011 semi-final between Real Madrid and Barcelona. I think someone else was set to do that game, but the first leg was such a nightmare that they felt they had to put him on the game.

I'm pretty sure most of the semifinal crew announcements are made as soon as the ties are set.

This season it will be a combination of Cakir, Brych, Kuipers and Skomina most likely.