Referee appointments for 2021-22 FIFA WC European Qualifiers, Matchday 8, games to be played on 11 October 2021.
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| Danny Makkelie in charge of North Macedonia - Germany |
Group H
18:00 CET - Larnaca (AEK Arena)
CYPRUS - MALTA
Referee: Dennis Higler (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Erwin Zeinstra (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Mario Diks (NED)
Fourth Official: Jeroen Manschot (NED)
Video Assistant Referee: Allard Lindhout (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Rob Dieperink (NED)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Sergejus Slyva (LTU)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Victor Marius Radu (ROU)
Group E
20:45 CET - Kazan (Centralniy Stadion)
BELARUS - CZECH REPUBLIC
Referee: François Letexier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Jérémy Stinat (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Willy Delajod (FRA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Eric Wattellier (FRA)
FIFA Referee Assessor: David Fernández Borbalán (ESP)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Nikola Kostov (MKD)
Group E
20:45 CET - Tallinn (A. Le Coq Arena)
ESTONIA - WALES
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Stephane De Almeida (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)
Video Assistant Referee: Fedayi San (SUI)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Lionel Tschudi (SUI)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Ichko Lozev (BUL)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Svitlana Shkil (UKR)
Group G
20:45 CET - Riga (Daugava)
LATVIA - TURKEY
Referee: Andreas Ekberg (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Fredrik Klyver (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Hallberg (SWE)
Fourth Official: Kaspar Sjöberg (SWE)
Video Assistant Referee: Daniel Siebert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Robert Wessel (GER)
FIFA Referee Assessor: João Francisco Lopes Ferreira (POR)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Viacheslav Semenov (RUS)
Group G
20:45 CET - Oslo (Ullevaal Stadion)
NORWAY - MONTENEGRO
Referee: István Kovács (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Vasile Florin Marinescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Ovidiu Artene (ROU)
Fourth Official: Andrei Chivulete (ROU)
Video Assistant Referee: Massimiliano Irrati (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Antonio Damato (ITA)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Bakar Jordania (GEO)
Group G
20:45 CET - Rotterdam (Stadion Feijenoord 'De Kuip')
NETHERLANDS - GIBRALTAR
Referee: Vitali Meshkov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Igor Demeshko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Dmitry Safyan (RUS)
Fourth Official: Kirill Levnikov (RUS)
Video Assistant Referee: Sergei Ivanov (RUS)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Vladimir Moskalev (RUS)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Rusmir Mrković (BIH)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Tugomir Frajman (SVN)
Group H
20:45 CET - Maribor (Stadion Ljudski vrt)
SLOVENIA - RUSSIA
Referee: Artur Dias (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Rui Tavares (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Paulo Soares (POR)
Fourth Official: Gustavo Fernandes Correia (POR)
Video Assistant Referee: João Pinheiro (POR)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Hugo Miguel (POR)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Levan Paniashvili (GEO)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Dennis Cruise (IRL)
Group H
20:45 CET - Osijek (Stadion Gradski vrt)
CROATIA - SLOVAKIA
Referee: Ovidiu Haţegan (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Radu Ghinguleac (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Mihail Grigoriu (ROU)
Fourth Official: Radu Petrescu (ROU)
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Ciro Carbone (ITA)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Andrejs Sipailo (LVA)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Mark Bos (NED)
Group J
20:45 CET - Skopje (National Arena Todor Proeski)
NORTH MACEDONIA - GERMANY
Referee: Danny Makkelie (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Hessel Steegstra (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan de Vries (NED)
Fourth Official: Sander van der Eijk (NED)
Video Assistant Referee: Kevin Blom (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Clay Ruperti (NED)
FIFA Referee Assessor: David Malcom (NIR)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Ivan Tsitovich (RUS)
Group J
20:45 CET - Bucharest (Stadionul Steaua)
ROMANIA - ARMENIA
Referee: Daniele Orsato (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Giallatini (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Giorgio Peretti (ITA)
Fourth Official: Luca Pairetto (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Maurizio Mariani (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Giacomo Paganessi (ITA)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Michael Riley (ENG)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Sviatlana Hrynkevich (BLR)
Group J
20:45 CET - Reykjavik (Laugardalsvöllur)
ICELAND - LIECHTENSTEIN
Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Konstantinos Nikolaidis (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Vasileios Nikolakakis (GRE)
Fourth Official: Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE)
Video Assistant Referee: Aristotelis Diamantopoulos (GRE)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Andreas Meintanas (GRE)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Igor Pristovnik (CRO)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Jenni Kennedy (ENG)
UEFA continues not risking much and putting Elite referees on all duels between two teams with realistic chances for qualification. This means, the games, which remain for the top First group referees like Schärer and Ekberg aren't that great.
ReplyDeleteThe two best games for Hategan and Orsato, I think.
Orsato's second assistant is Peretti no Preti. Passeri is called Matteo no Andrea
ReplyDeleteSorry for some mistakes! However, I'm not sure, but maybe one hour ago Preti name was reported... regarding Passeri I just mixed up with Andrei Chivulete while writing :)
Delete@Chefren Non ti preoccupare 😉, sul sito UEFA porta Giorgio Peretti
DeleteThe mentioned situations from Çakır's Germany vs. Romania game yesterday:
ReplyDelete5' - Penalty to Germany (charging) revoked after intervention
https://streamable.com/l78pve
40' - Reckless or SFP? Yellow card to Romania no.23
https://streamable.com/21xt5n
45' - Careless challenge by Romania no.23
https://streamable.com/q8d7oc
There was another possible RC, YC very close to SFP, in the last minutes of the game, player Kehrer, minute 87'.
DeleteThanks Chefren - clip is below:
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While I think 40' is quite a clear YC only for UEFA (lack of brutal force), this 87' scene is right at the borderline. The trapping contact is just (only just!) short of really dangerous however, so I agree with Çakır in issuing just a caution.
IMO Red Card. Not any intention and more, not any possibility to play the ball. SFP !
DeleteI think 40' and 87' are good shouts for a RC. Standing on the calf from behind without a chance of playing the ball is RC intervention for UEFA I think (A27 and A29 were RC9). But here there is a somewhat glancing contact, so I'm not sure. Does anyone have a UEFA example that is very similiar?
DeleteI would classify both as orange cards.
DeleteIn my opinion the 87' challenge is SFP. I see the arguments for a yellow card but it puts the attacker's leg in a very compromising position. I don't see any trapping or scissors, but the attacker's leg is forced to buckle beneath him and it could have caused a very bad landing. For example if the attacker had tried to plant his right foot instead of "pulling up the landing gear", it is very easy to see how that could have injured his ankle.
DeleteStandard yellow cards for both. No need to over exaggerate both fauls.
Delete40' the point of contact is bad, and the mode of contact transfers from side of foot to (a single) stud as the challenge goes on, but the force is very low and the contact is very glancing. Reckless YC here. The 87' challenge is definitely worse, definitely more likely to cause a serious injury.
DeleteI'm a little surprised to see Hategan with Di Bello again. Hategan is also not with his usual AR2 Sebastian Gheorghe but with Mircea Grigoriu instead. I don't know details but I don't think it's an injury because he had a match in the domestic league on October 2nd.
ReplyDeleteOrsato has a potential very hot game in group J, the team which loose is out for the 2nd place. In general, groups G,I and J are very balanced and many games are decisive from now on.
I’m happy for Mario Diks. He was thrown away by Danny Makkelie after Ronaldo goal in Serbia. It seems that now Mario found a new team where he can be more fairly evaluated as assistant and as a person. Lets see how further Dennis Higler will go with the help and the experience that Mario has.
ReplyDeleteFor sure Mario Diks is hungry for revenge. Let’s see. It will be interesting to watch in the coming years.
DeleteI very much doubt Diks will ever get to the level he did with Makkelie
DeleteAccording to NL media, the replacement was not based on one mistake. He made more mistakes (wasnt as steady as he used to be) and de Vries replaced him already a few times before the permanent replacement.
ReplyDeleteKuipers has also replaced his AR before EC2012. Nothing strange IMO. They are professionals, have top sport mentality. There has to be 100% trust in AR’s.
True, but Makkelie just replaced Diks without asking, and just throwed him out off the team, the story with Kuipers is something else.... Kuipers was evaluating the situation with his assistent and both agreed that also due to family life the assistent was not possible to be so many times away in the year, so Kuipers and he came to the same conclusion that he has to give up, not because he didn't trust him or he was not good enough, wich is the case with Makkelie/Diks
DeleteThis is pure speculation. We can't know what happened within the team.
DeleteThe only thing we know:
- Diks was already downgraded from AR1 to AR2 a few months before the permanent change. This is a big sign for me. Something was going on.
- He made more mistakes in CL and Dutch league (Example: Twente-AZ in Dec 2020 when Makkelie gave a red card based on the advise of Diks which wasn't a red card; confirmed by Makkelie himself after the match on local television).
- And de Vries already 'replaced' him a few times during 2020, so he was literally warming-up. >> https://www.vi.nl/nieuws/dick-jol-dapper-en-professioneel-besluit-van-makkelie
Pretty sure it wasn't based on one incident, but a sum of more bad performances.
It’s interesting because I remember in Manchester City/Lyon few seasons ago after the second Lyon goal went in (controversial of it was offside or not) Makkelie was visibly angry at someone, which if you look carefully is his assistant Mario Diks. So it seems like Makkelie and Diks were having problems from a long long time ago.
DeleteNED - GIB, Penalty whistled by Meshkov after OFR:
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Excellent first half by Orsato in a low level difficulty game.
ReplyDeleteNED - GIB second OFR:
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Lucky for Meshkov not a 3rd OFR (Another handball) because of goal few seconds later. But he missed the handball again
ReplyDeleteDoes someone know how Schärer and his team are doing in Estonia?
ReplyDeleteDoing alright. Missed what I thought was a penalty in the second half. VAR backed his decision. Hand in face
DeleteThank you! :-)
DeleteNever seen a GLT so close
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/PatrickLeemans1/status/1447660813079040001?t=EExEGYikYQbR4axKERwEpg&s=19
Kovacs gives 2yc in 3 seconds. 1 for protest en 1 for applause
ReplyDeleteDecisive penalty call in LVA- TUR, minute 90'+7.
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What a finish in Riga!
DeleteWhat a crazy "counterattack" too, very difficult positioning problem for Ekberg to solve on that play. The Turkish goalkeeper cleared it away from the top of his own penalty arc, and 6 seconds later (I counted!) the Turkish attacker was fouled in the opposite penalty area. At the end of the day there is really no solution for the referee but relying on his assistant Hallberg for help there (other than video review of course).
DeleteI don’t think it’s a penalty. Anyone else?
DeleteOne arm push, so in my opinion soft call.. As if the defender has the power to push down 80 kg with one single arm. I assume the attacker is waiting for the contact and falling down (which is smart).
DeleteVAR could have supported the decision on the pitch IMO.
Seemed like interesting games for Hațegan (very heavy rain and pitch in Osijek), Soares Dias (repeat of Hauge's playoff in Maribor) and Kovács (lots of 2H cautions during important game) - any reports of whole performances?
ReplyDeleteAlos lots of 2H cautions (and even a send off for a team official) for Orsato in Bucharest as well.
DeleteAny info about Papadopoulos in Iceland??
ReplyDeleteUnconvincing, two penalties. Earlier one was soft but second one correct. Subpar man management and whistle technique in quite a small stadium aswell. Not good.
DeleteFirst penalty: https://streamja.com/MyaLl
DeleteSecond penalty: https://streamja.com/30eV7
I agree, not clear penalties, especially the second, but supportable decisions, VAR must back referee, I would really like to see more evident fouls.
However, red card was correct IMO. second yellow.
DeleteI watched both NED - GIB and MKD - GER.
ReplyDeleteBoth matches were calm, high level of fairplay.
Poor Meshkov - I don't think the handballs were easy to spot.
Makkelie applied his modern style of refereeing style (high line, allowing fysical play, many advantages), but never lost control.
It was funny to see the players of North-Macedonia waiting for the whistle after a push when advantage play applied.
Did they actually do something about the stupid lasers? Annoying and unsportive behaviour from supporters.
Full sequence of the penalty given at the end of Latvia vs. Turkey by Andreas Ekberg after intervention [VAR: Siebert] at +95':
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A few things to unpack here:
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Positioning ->
What a nightmare for Ekberg on this level! Just see these screenshots (even Gil Manzano would have been in trouble :D) - https://imgur.com/a/sP5onWr
My tip to all (young) refs who get in a mission impossible situation like this - run left! Insight angles are much more important than spacial proximity, you can take a quite correct crucial decision from the halfway line with the right 'look in' to a situation. Convincing the players might be a bit harder though....
While it does seem that Ekberg lacks a dynamic sprint a bit, even Usain Bolt would have had to have guessed this decision. So all the chips are down on assistant Stefan Hallberg here, and you can see his clear (non-)gestures for play on.
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Was it a penalty? ->
Hmmmm. To be honest, this isn't my favourite penalty call. The attacker basically waits for the defender who is closely following him before stopping a bit and waiting to be crashed into.
The problem is that looks *really* clear, and it is hard to argue that the defender's actions weren't ultimately careless; even if I would say that AR Hallberg had the right idea, honestly.
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Intervention?
In Daniel Siebert's position, I would have intervened too. It is an easy sell for two reasons: 1) Ekberg's position and (lack of) initial perception, and, 2) how clear the situation *looks*.
NOT intervening, while perhaps more actually correct, would have lead to much more controversy "is VAR blind?!?". Siebert did well to intervene in my view for that reason, and showed good images to lean towards penalty (longer shot also to confirm that contact was inside).
Ekberg's actions at the OFR gave the impression "well, I've just missed a stonewall penalty because I got caught so I can go over to the RRA and give it afterwards". It was very quick and two angles were enough.
Technically, that is not optimal (ie. the same way Kabakov did in WOBSEV when he should have seriously and actively questioned whether this was a foul or not, and was felled for not doing so), but actually helped sell this decision for the wider public!
Am I the only one or I really can’t see any clear and obvious error here, VAR could fully support
DeleteAnd one could also reason that Burak more or less seems to clamp the defenders arm when challenging. Very controversial IMHO…
DeleteHmm I don't believe you can push down Burak with one single arm :)
DeleteHe is waiting for the contact. I assume VAR could have supported the initial decision on the field.
I hadn't realized that the penalty had been given after OFR, for me simply a clear mistake by Siebert and a very important one: on the contrary, in these situations you have elements to evalute the level of VAR, in my opinion, when something can be very crucial for the outcome, like in this game, but at the same time is not enough for a call. And of course that's my idea as well, despite of everything, Siebert should have never intervened, no matter that Ekberg was far away, I think we must be firm to VAR protocol, that's not even a very clear foul if you ask me. Siebert should have supported the call.
DeleteLindhout has been given the hot derby game NEC - Vitesse this weekend. In my eyes very surprising, the derby returns after many years and I would have predicted someone more experienced, let’s see how this goes. Also, Makkelie has an Ajax game this weekend so next weekend we finally have someone other than Kuipers or Makkelie on Ajax - PSV
ReplyDeleteMakkelie without his regular ARs.
DeleteExcept Gözübüyük for Ajax - PSV
Yes noticed that too. Both regular AR's have a weekend off. Maybe other (international) duties?
DeleteAfter Kuipers retired, it can't be Makkelie on all PSV/Ajax/Feyenoord clashes. I also expect Gözübüyük to officiate Ajax - PSV..
The Feyenoord - Ajax game in December will also be a hot one (return of Berghuis). I count on Makkelie for that game.
My choice would be Higler for Ajax - PSV. I like the appointment of Lindhout for the derby between NEC-Vitesse. He already refereed 119 matches in the Eredivisie and is a Fifa referee. It is refreshing to see his name instead of Makkelie/Nijhuis/Blom/van Boekel.
DeleteAgree with you! Also now Kuipers is retired it should not be all the time Makkelie/Gozubuyuk for Ajax/PSV/Feyenoord matches, why not use Nijhuis, Higler, or experienced NON or former-Fifa refs like Blom, Van Boekel, Manschot, Van de Graaf, it's good to have some change in names specially iff Makkelie or Gozubuyuk, or worst case both get injured
DeleteI don't agree on a few names you mention:
Delete- I wouldn't call Van de Graaf an experienced referee, he hasn't even had an Ajax game yet! That is usually a good way to see how KNVB perceives referees, he's definitely not ready (and not considered) for top 3 games.
- Van Boekel hasn't been any good as a main referee ever since the introduction of VAR, not sure why. But we have to be fair: he doesn't deserve those kind of games anymore, which is a shame.
- Higler just doesn't convince me, I don't think I can remember a game of him in which I think he did a very good job. I can't see that go well in such a clash (see also the Supercup game of Ajax - PSV of him, that did not go well)
I agree on Blom and Nijhuis, and would also like to see Kamphuis / Lindhout / Manschot in a top 3 game with less relevance (cup, supercup or a less important league tie)
Leekens:
ReplyDeleteI don't agree on your argument off Van de Graaf, He had games of feyenoord (in the most difficult stadium "de Kuip") off the Netherlands, and PSV, and is already a long time on eredivisielevel, refereeing in "De Kuip" is cosidered more difficult than in the Arena
He didn't referee any Ajax games, but that can also because maybe he is a fan off Ajax, and het told KNVb he doesn't want to referee games off Ajax, he is definetly not a fan off his alomst home town club Ado Den Haag because he refereed them multiple times although he lives not even 10 minutes from the stadium
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