Sunday 26 March 2023

2023/24 European Qualifiers - Referee Appointments MD2 (26 March 2023)

Sunday's games will kick off Matchday 2 of EURO 2024 Qualifiers. 



15:00 CET - Nur Sultan (Astana Arena)
KAZAKHSTAN - DENMARK | Group H
Referee: Novak Simović (SRB)
Assistant Referee 1: Nikola Djorovic (SRB)
Assistant Referee 2: Miloš Simovic (SRB)
Fourth Official: Lazar Lukić (SRB)
Video Assistant Referee: Momčilo Marković (SRB)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jelena Cvetković (SRB)
UEFA Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili (GEO)
UEFA Delegate: Sviatlana Hrynkevich (BLR)

18:00 CET - London (Wembley Stadium)
ENGLAND - UKRAINE | Group C
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Erwin E. J. Zeinstra (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Johan Balder (NED)
Fourth Official: Richard Wilhelmus Martens (NED)
Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jeroen Manschot (NED)
UEFA Referee Observer: Drago Kos (SVN)
UEFA Delegate: Loukas Siotropos (GRE)

18:00 CET - Ljubljana (Stadion Stožice)
SLOVENIA - SAN MARINO | Group H
Referee: Nathan Verboomen (BEL)
Assistant Referee 1: Mathias Hillaert (BEL)
Assistant Referee 2: Ruben Wyns (BEL)
Fourth Official: Erik Lambrechts (BEL)
Video Assistant Referee: Lawrence Visser (BEL)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Bram Van Driessche (BEL)
UEFA Referee Observer: Vencel Tóth (HUN)
UEFA Delegate: Tarik Shamel (ENG)

18:00 CET - Vaduz (Rhein Park Stadion) 
LIECHTENSTEIN - ICELAND | Group J
Referee: Jakob Kehlet (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Lars Hummelgaard (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Victor Skytte (DEN)
Fourth Official: Sandi Putros (DEN)
Video Assistant Referee: Pawel Pskit (POL)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Piotr Lasyk (POL)
UEFA Referee Observer: Plarent Kotherja (ALB)
UEFA Delegate: Nikola Kostov (MKD)

20:45 CET - Ta' Qali (National Stadium) 
MALTA - ITALY | Group C
Referee: Georgi Kabakov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 1: Martin Margaritov (BUL)
Assistant Referee 2: Diyan Valkov (BUL)
Fourth Official: Nikola Popov (BUL)
Video Assistant Referee: Christian Dingert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Dragomir Draganov (BUL)
UEFA Referee Observer: Milorad Mažić (SRB)
UEFA Delegate: Tormod Larsen (NOR) 

20:45 CET - Belfast (Windsor Park) 
NORTHERN IRELAND - FINLAND | Group H
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Branislav Hancko (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Jan Pozor (SVK)
Fourth Official: Peter Kralović (SVK)
Video Assistant Referee: Dennis Higler (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Edwin Van De Graaf (NED)
UEFA Referee Observer: Costas Kapitanis (CYP)
UEFA Delegate: Danilo Filacchione (ITA)

20:45 CET - Bratislava (Národný futbalový štadión)
SLOVAKIA - BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA | Group J
Referee: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Giorgio Peretti (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Marco Bresmes (ITA)
Fourth Official: Giovanni Ayroldi (ITA) 
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Guida (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Fabio Maresca (ITA) 
UEFA Referee Observer: Volodymyr Petrov (UKR) 
UEFA Delegate: Paul Tompkins (ENG) 

20:45 CET - City of Luxembourg (Stade de Luxembourg) 
LUXEMBOURG - PORTUGAL | Group J
Referee: Radu Petrescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Radu Ghinguleac (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Mihail Grigoriu (ROU)
Fourth Official: Iulian Dima (ROU) 
Video Assistant Referee: Ovidiu Haţegan (ROU)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Horatiu Fenic (ROU) 
UEFA Referee Observer: Jon Skjervold (NOR)
UEFA Delegate: Peter Lundström (FIN)
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32 comments:

  1. Philipp S23 March 2023 at 11:11

    Interesting appointment for the Germany-Peru friendly:
    Maria Caputi, Ciro Carbone, Alessandro Giallatini, Davide Massa - Paolo Mazzoleni, Luigi Nasca (all ITA)
    So a female referee, who is only in UEFA's women first group, but going to the WC. Together with some male countrymen, who regularly work in CL.

    GEO-MNG: Hovhannisyan, Ghazarayan, Sevgulayn (all ARM), Aptsiauri (GEO)

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    1. Euro Soccer Ref23 March 2023 at 11:15

      Sorry, I was typing when you posted a comment :)

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  2. Euro Soccer Ref23 March 2023 at 11:15

    Friendlies

    Saturday 25 March 2023

    15:00 CET - Batumi (AdjaraBet Arena)
    GEORGIA - MONGOLIA
    Referee: Zaven Hovhannisyan ARM
    Assistant Referee 1: Mesrop Ghazaryan ARM
    Assistant Referee 2: Atom Sevgulyan ARM
    Fourth Official: Aleko Aptsiauri GEO

    20:45 CET - Mainz (MEWA Arena)
    GERMANY - PERU
    Referee: Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi ITA
    Assistant Referee 1: Ciro Carbone ITA
    Assistant Referee 2: Alessandro Giallatini ITA
    Fourth Official: Davide Massa ITA
    Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni ITA
    Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Luigi Nasca ITA

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    1. Chefren23 March 2023 at 11:22

      Clearly they are accelerating her process to develop as she is only, at least on paper, a UEFA Category 1 official and she should officiate at WC. After a quick promotion and after having skipped the abolished Category 3, time is still short so here you have a big appointment in Men's friendly. Orsato's assistant referees are at moment the best in Italy, so you can easily understand the reason for this specific choice. I don't think this is a new start of a process involving some other women, but I think this is made on purpose for her.

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  3. Philipp S23 March 2023 at 11:19

    Disappointments (isn't that a great word for appointments below expectations...?) for Kruzliak and Kehlet, I think, while Simovic gets a rather good match for his category.
    The rest appears more or less normal to me.

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  4. Euro Soccer Ref23 March 2023 at 11:38

    Group C
    Very important and big ENGUKR goes to Serdar Gözübüyük. With ITA in this group, all games between these three teams are extremely important. It seems the Dutchman has become a trusted referee for UEFA whether one agrees or not. Not so big MLTITA has been assigned to Georgi Kabakov but with Milorad Mažić observing. Another big test for the Bulgarian but the committee rather didn't want to give him a bigger game.

    Group H
    No really big games this matchday. Novak Simović got KAZDEN with Levan Paniashvili. The committee clearly see the Serb as promising referee. Let's remember that almost every game involving KAZ is challenging for the referee. NIRFIN, quite interesting game if NIR is going to show a good form, goes to Ivan Kružliak and Nathan Verboomen to handle the less significant SVNSMR.

    Group J
    Besides POR, everything is open in this group with BIH, ISL, maybe also LUX and SVK fighting for the second place. Marco Di Bello with SVKBIH seems the most important this matchday but of course not soooo big on the paper. LUXPOR goes to Radu Petrescu (surely more interesting game than PORLIE given to Eskås in MD1), and LIEISL will be handled by Jakob Kehlet.

    So, Gözübüyük with a big and important ENGUKR. Kabakov under special observation of Mažić in 'only' MLTITA though. Committee continue their focus on Simović. Kružliak, Di Bello and Petrescu with 'semi-important' duels. Verboomen and Kehlet with least significant games.

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  5. f23 March 2023 at 14:39

    Off Topic,
    I would like to share my thoughts about next quarter final club matches. I guess that the appointments should be planned in the perspective of semifinals and final to avoid potential lack of candidates. For CL final match, I guess that nobody disagree that the real candidates are Makkelie, Marciniak and Taylor. I would rule out Marciniak just because he already got WC final and a CL match could freeze his motivations of the future as well because it could be a little respectless to the other to class. In Rosetti’s shoes I would wait for quarte final: If City and Chelsea will be out I would go straight to Taylor, otherwise I would go straight to Makkelie. Europe League final could also depend by teams: if Italian ones will be out, it could be a deserved good farewell match for Orsato, otherwise I would go straight to Marciniak, who only officiated super cup final so far (except WC of course).
    It arises that CL semifinal could see:
    City/BM – Chelsea/Real: Orsato (if Marciniak will official EL fial) and Turpin or Marciniak (if Orsato engaged in EL final) and Turpin
    Milan/Naples – Inter/ Benfica: Taylor (if Makkelie engaged in CL final) and Mateu or Makkelie (if Taylor engaged in CL final) and Mateu
    Mateu and Turpin already booked
    According to such toughts I would go:
    CITY-B.M.: VINCIC-MARCINIAK
    BENFICA-INTER: DEL CERRO GRANDE-OLIVER
    MILAN-NAPLES: TAYLOR-ZWAYER
    CHELSEA-REAL M.: JOVANOVIC-KOVACS

    FEYENORD-ROME: SHARER-GIL MANZANO
    JUVENTUS-SPORTING:GRINFEELD-KRUZLIAK
    M. UTD-SEVILLA: ORSATO-MAKKELIE
    LEVERKUSEN-UNION SG: MASSA-SOARES DIAS

    Probably Conference league can follow a dedicated path
    GENT-WEST HAM: PINHEIRO-BASTIEN
    FIORENTINA-LECH: STAVREV(just for farewell match)-NYBERG
    ANDERLECHT-AZ:LETEXIER-EKBERG
    BASEL-NICE:SANCHEZ MARTINEZ-STIELER
    As you see Guzubuyuk is out because to me is overrated but I see that uefa comettee trusts a lot on him, so probably he will not miss any match

    Does it sound good for you such appointments ?

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    1. Philipp S23 March 2023 at 15:37

      I don't think, that referees will repeat teams from previous rounds, therefore I don't believe in your predictions for Vincic, Kovacs, Schärer, Gil Manzano, Massa, Soares Dias and Bastien.

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  6. anty7526 March 2023 at 16:33

    Strange penalty for Kazahstan, I didn't see any handball

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    1. Quilava26 March 2023 at 16:42

      Me neither, my impression is that Wind cleared the ball with his shoulder. Is it possible that he touched it with the elbow first?

      Looks like it was called after AR1 input, quite delayed.

      https://streamin.me/v/818b239c

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    2. Chefren26 March 2023 at 16:47

      The penalty was called by assistant referee for sure, no chance to see for referee and I think VAR didn't intervene because no clear evidence that it wasn't arm.
      This should be the moment of the handball:
      https://ibb.co/1qMr69T

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    3. anty7526 March 2023 at 17:05

      Still not convinced it was a handball and can't undestand how assistant ref could have seen it clearly

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  7. anty7526 March 2023 at 16:37

    Watched a couple of replays and still I am shocked, how is it possible to give such penalty with VAR???

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    1. Holly26 March 2023 at 16:59

      anti75,you are shocked by the decisions of exclusively Serbian referees!!!!!

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    2. anty7526 March 2023 at 17:06

      Thats bullsh*t, nothing to do with his nationality. Yesterday I commented about poor performance of Bastien

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  8. Quilava26 March 2023 at 17:05

    2nd YC for reckless elbow for KAZ17: https://streamin.me/v/61ea2121

    Crazy & unexpected Kazakhstan comeback from 0-2 to 3-2, that controversial handball PK was for sure a turning point.

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    1. Chefren26 March 2023 at 17:19

      Looking at the way of raising and showing both cards, including the body language, I must say he looks like a very famous referee from his country!

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    2. Quilava26 March 2023 at 17:53

      "Caesar's wife must not only be it, but also look like it"

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    3. Mlacko26 March 2023 at 20:52

      He is one of the most controversial referee in our country. Most of the people doesnt like him. He is too arogant.

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  9. anty7526 March 2023 at 18:52

    Good first half by Gözübüyük. Could have given a penalty on Kane but probably would have been too soft, certainly not a mistake in my view

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    1. Unknown26 March 2023 at 18:56

      Agreed, generally a decent performance, but IMO a missed yellow card in 21. after a reckless stamp on foot. I was bothered more though by the hesitant and not so convincing body language (reaching for the pocket twice, delaying a decision) in that situation. Apart from that not sure much to report.

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    2. Chefren26 March 2023 at 19:01

      Best decision to play on because the contact was more than minimal and Kane tried to use it.
      Missed YC in 21', very clear.
      He should be less hesitating and more convinced in his decisions, better to have a decision sold with the best body language than appearing always afraid of making a mistake.

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  10. mathias26 March 2023 at 20:54

    Nathan Verboomen with a quiet match.
    He gave 3 yellow cards in the match (all 3 to San Marino)
    There were also 2 VAR checks in minutes 56 and 90 for a possible penalty, but the VAR (Lawrence Visser) did not intervene.

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  11. anty7526 March 2023 at 21:30

    Kružliak with a very lenient approach, could have been several yellow cards already with another referee.

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  12. VG26 March 2023 at 22:07

    Minute 55 circa. Ronaldo with a shameful simulation and correctly given a yellow card. Then sarcastically gave thumbs up and applauded the referee after his expalnation. No card for that. Just wish he would get another one, especially since the decision was 100% correct.

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    1. Chefren27 March 2023 at 12:50

      Video:
      https://streamff.co/v/WO3NmYSB6X
      At first let me say excellent call by Petrescu, full simulation, last replay is clear. Then, coming into Cristiano Ronaldo's behavior after that, he was very clever in doing that gesture in a rather "friendly" (with referee) context, at first arguing with him and then having this reaction. If it had been an isolated act, and maybe from a certain distance, it would have looked different. I think that you can't talk about a very mandatory card in this case, but of course in case of second yellow nobody could have blamed referee. I just liked the fact that he was not influenced by the famous Portuguese star and he issued a YC for simulation with firmness, reaching already a level that is not common for other referees, even when they SAW WELL what has happened...

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  13. Chefren27 March 2023 at 12:26

    Two very interesting situations from Liechtenstein - Iceland, referee Kehlet (DEN).

    14' Offensive foul whistled with the worst timing
    https://streamff.co/v/MBBG0ymqiw
    I stopped the video at the beginning of the whistle, it was exactly when ball was entering the net. Not clear which foul wanted to punish referee, UEFA site reports foul by nr. 11 ISL, the player scoring the goal. Phantom call by referee that in an important game would have "disallowed" VAR intervention...

    40' Disallowed goal after OFR for a previous foul
    https://streamff.co/v/1m_XY_AwO2
    I think that the Polish VAR assessed a step on foot. While the intensity seems very soft, one can agree with the call since the scoring player i took advantage on defender, scoring immediately after that, but if I look at this situation as standard one, I'm in doubt whether clear enough for an intervention or not. Nevertheless, we definitely saw less clear calls for alleged steps on foot, so I think it is OK.

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    1. Philipp S27 March 2023 at 14:32

      @14': I don't think, VAR would have intervened, if he could, because there is a small push in the back by the goalscorer.
      But yes, he should have waited a bit longer.

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  14. Chefren27 March 2023 at 13:27

    A penalty appeal from Malta - Italy, I think supportable to play on. Correct by VAR to stay silent, should have been whistled only by Kabakov.
    https://streamff.co/v/P_Uvdy8U7X

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  15. Dhal8527 March 2023 at 14:08

    U21 EURO Quali
    Greece-Belarus - 28/3 16:00

    Referee: Sigurd Kringstad NOR
    Assistant referees:
    Øystein Ytterland NOR
    Runar Langseth NOR
    Fourth official: Daniel Higraff NOR

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