2022-23 Europa Conference League Semifinals. Referee appointments for First Legs.
11 May 2023
21:00 CET - Florence (Stadio Comunale Artemio Franchi)
ACF Fiorentina (ITA) - FC Basel (SUI)
ACF Fiorentina (ITA) - FC Basel (SUI)
Referee: François Letexier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Stéphanie Frappart (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Jérôme Brisard (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Cyril Mugnier (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Fourth Official: Stéphanie Frappart (FRA)
Video Assistant Referee: Jérôme Brisard (FRA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Willy Delajod (FRA)
UEFA Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)
UEFA Delegate: Jovan Šurbatović (SRB)
UEFA Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)
UEFA Delegate: Jovan Šurbatović (SRB)
21:00 CET - London (London Stadium)
West Ham (ENG) - AZ Alkmaar (NED)
West Ham (ENG) - AZ Alkmaar (NED)
Referee: Halil Umut Meler (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Mustafa Emre Eyisoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Kerem Ersoy (TUR)
Fourth Official: Maurizio Mariani (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Abdulkadir Bitigen (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Mustafa Emre Eyisoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Kerem Ersoy (TUR)
Fourth Official: Maurizio Mariani (ITA)
Video Assistant Referee: Paolo Valeri (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Abdulkadir Bitigen (TUR)
UEFA Referee Observer: Matteo Simone Trefoloni (ITA)
UEFA Delegate: Radenko Mijatović (SVN)
UEFA Delegate: Radenko Mijatović (SVN)
For Umut Meler, this has been the KO stage of development and I would say overall he reached the target, with this last experience in ECL semifinal. Turkish officials very often paired to Italians, Irrati was VAR in past for him, now the same with Valeri and Mariani fourth official. For the latter, also a chance for making another appearance after having handled only one game in KO stage, but extremely poor management by committee, to put him in that clash.
ReplyDeleteOne could have expected Massa, if not appointed in another game, but we must also consider the level of the competition.
Everything goes well for Letexier with another expected game, maybe after CL one could have also seen him in EL. Indeed, it is particular to go from CL to UECL, but still totally deserved.
Letexier had a Europa league game in between the UCL and UCEL game
DeleteSorry I forgot that :) even more an excellent season for him
DeleteUmut meler uefa super cup referee
ReplyDeleteBelki çok erken ama gelişme aşamasında yeni çakır olma yolunda
DeleteHalil Umut Meler losing control off players, home crowd and game here. His style does not suit this type of game. Not bad but not perfect performance so far.
ReplyDeleteNow clear and obvious error for me - Meler has whistle in mouth and ready to give free and does not. Clear push on west ham player. 3.5/10 so far for me. Below standard.
ReplyDeleteWest ham claiming a foul in build up to AZ goal. I've seen nothing yet to suggest a clear error..
ReplyDeleteHowever Meler is in danger of losing control
Controversial goal scored in London. Umut Meler should have whistled previous foul himself - I agree it wasn't VAR stuff, but still big discussions.
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't it VAR stuff? You can see on replay that Meler doesn't have the angle to make the call himself. He's moving laterally to try to get a good view. And he puts his whistle to his mouth, which suggests that even he THOUGHT it was a foul.
DeleteHiding behind some argument that this foul was "too soft" is absolutely mind-numbing to me when it comes a day after we had a referee review a penalty that he saw clearly and only annulled because the severity of the hold wasn't enough at 25% speed. This was a clear push that caused West Ham to lose possession and AZ scored directly from it. A push that the referee could not fully see. If this isn't the sort of APP foul that warrants intervention, I'm not sure what does.
In yesterday’s match there simply was no foul, not at 25% speed, not at 50% speed and not at 100% speed, so the comparison doesn’t make sense to me.
DeleteAbout tonight’s no-intervention one can definitely discuss, I agree.
Correctly or incorrectly, yesterday's incident has been given as a penalty since the dawn of time. A defender, who has overrun the situation and is in no place to defend, reached out and put his arm on the waist of an attacker in an attempt to slow him down. If you want to say it wasn't enough to cause Martinez to go down, I agree with you. But attackers go down because referees don't call these deliberate holds.
DeleteUsing VAR to decide whether the severity of the hold was "enough" is changing the way the game gets called. Maybe it's changing it for the for the better, in your opinion. But it's definitely outside the scope of how VAR has been advertised. Gil Manzano was staring straight at an incident and he saw what happened, so he whistled. The OFR provided no new evidence for him, it just slowed the play down.
IMO, an attempt to slow him down is not sufficient for a foul.
DeleteIt needs to be an action, that actually slows him down.
So my argument would not be "it wasn't enough to cause Martinez to go down" but "it wasn't enough to slow Martinez down". And the reason it, that there was no impact (e.g. grabbing the shirt or pushing) in the opposite direction of Martinez' movement. Just putting the arm on the waist, doesn't mean it has to influence the opponent.
And yes, this is slowmotion analysis, but still useful for the evaluation, I believe. However I agree, that the VAR should have shown also a full speed replay to the referee.
Regarding the VAR intervention, it's clear that it's wrong to you, if you already think, that the penalty was correct. And if roughly 10% or more of qualified and neutral people have the same opinion as you, I agree, that the intervention was wrong. My impression was, that the vast majority of watchers would not agree with the penalty, so that the OFR was the right thing to do - but maybe I was wrong there.
I think Meler saw it and made an onfield decision by himself (right or wrong is another discussion). I don't know if any Turkish readers would agree but I got an impression that Meler is trying to manage the games in Turkish Super League as if there is no VAR at the backstage, kind of old style pre-VAR times, unlike his many of the colleagues who heavily rely on VAR for every key decision.
DeleteHow was his foul detection and disciplinary line apart from key match incidences?
Penalty by Umut Meler "Bastien style". Keeper with a punch on a player, late intervention, he missed the ball. Not always whistled by all referees, and not often called by VARs.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Letexier ? Abouter good performance ?
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ReplyDeleteNormal performance, game was not challenging. Most important situation was only an offside goal.
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ReplyDeleteWith soft penalty and controversy about AZ goal I think impossible he got mark >7.0
DeleteThen Anonymous 08:30 you are clearly unfamiliar with the Uefa rating system.
DeleteIf I unfamiliar with UEFA rating system like you said, can you give me explanation why Meler got 8.0 mark score with 2 likely controversial KMI?
DeleteIs he so good with the rest beside 2 KMI?
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