2024/25 UEFA Europa Conference League, referee appointments for Quarterfinals, First Legs.
Thursday 10 April 2025
18:45 CET - Warsaw (Stadion Miejski Legii Warszawa im. Marszałka Józefa Piłsudskiego)
LEGIA WARSZAWA (POL) - CHELSEA FC (ENG)
Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük NED
Assistant Referee 1: Erwin Zeinstra NED
Assistant Referee 2: Patrick Inia NED
Fourth Official: Joey Kooij NED
Video Assistant Referee: Pol van Boekel NED
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Richard Martens NED
UEFA Referee Observer: Alain Hamer LUX
UEFA Delegate: Róbert Birgir Agnarson ISL
21:00 CET - Seville (Estadio Benito Villamarín)
REAL BETIS BALOMPIÉ (ESP) - JAGIELLONIA BIAŁYSTOK (POL)
Referee: Anthony Taylor ENG
Assistant Referee 1: Gary Beswick ENG
Assistant Referee 2: Adam Nunn ENG
Fourth Official: Robert Jones ENG
Video Assistant Referee: Bram Van Driessche BEL
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Jan Boterberg BEL
UEFA Referee Observer: Gylfi Þór Orrason ISL
UEFA Delegate: Neil Morrow NIR
21:00 CET - Celje (Stadion Z’dežele)
NK CELJE (SVN) - ACF FIORENTINA (ITA)
Referee: Felix Zwayer GER
Assistant Referee 1: Robert Kempter GER
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Dietz GER
Fourth Official: Florian Badstübner GER
Video Assistant Referee: Pascal Müller GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Robert Schröder GER
UEFA Referee Observer: Mehmet Murat Ilgaz TUR
UEFA Delegate: Mirosław Ryszka POL
21:00 CET - Stockholm (3Arena)
DJURGÅRDENS IF (SWE) - SK RAPID WIEN (AUT)
Referee: Tobias Stieler GER
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Gittelmann GER
Assistant Referee 2: Mark Borsch GER
Fourth Official: Harm Osmers GER
Video Assistant Referee: Benjamin Brand GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Benjamin Cortus GER
UEFA Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili GEO
UEFA Delegate: Andrew Shaw ENG
Only conference game for Stieler and I think this is his last for this season. After Porto-Roma game he has very different approach when it comes to cards. His last 6 games after the game in Porto he looks like he is fighting with himself to not show cards and it looks very bad. He missed so many mandatory yellow cards in FCSB-Lyon and Olympiakos-Paok but even domestic. After Porto-Roma game where he showed 10 cards he is avg only 2 cards per game in his last 6 games.
ReplyDelete@Chefren Do you know is it possible that referees get some critic and direction to change their approach and is it good for this level referee to not trust his own style even if they are in middle of the season?
Not that important game Zwayer as they save him for some big game in Champions League, great season for him.
A bit strange game given to Taylor where home team is big favorite and easy game for referee in any aspect .
Standard game for Serdar.
I don't know exactly, but I absolutely don't think that committee invites referees to change their styles, if this is what you mean by your question. If a referee has a poor game, there must be a technical assessment, but not an invite to change approach.
DeleteMy idea is that Stieler just changed it by himself, aware of the criticisms, and he didn't want to be in the spotlights again. Then surely committee after the game involving Roma appointed him for further games and that's already good thing, because we know that very often they pay big attention to teams, to make them content, instead of working on referees without caring of the rest.
70', Legia - Chelsea, the classic issue we know from Gozubuyuk, seen also in other games.
ReplyDeleteFoul at the edge of penalty area, one must admit very difficult to understand where the foul happened from the pitch, but he made three or four different gestures and it wasn't absolutely clear what he had decided. VAR now working.
Gözübüyük always seems to lack personality. It’s never really clear what he’s deciding, with all the excessive and hectic gestures. I also think he missed at least a clear yellow card here—maybe even a red, considering the studs were above the ankle and on the shin. It might have been slightly glancing, but a red card would have been justifiable.
DeleteActually, it was a very tricky (VAR) incident. Gözübüyük applied wait-and-see for a foul outside the penalty area and at the moment he was whistling for a penalty there was another penalty incident that was finally assessed as foul by Van Boekel. IMO, it would have been better to call the referee to a monitor, especially given that #23 LEG played the ball at first and the subsequent studs contact was not necessarily a foul.
Deletehttps://streambug.org/cv/b55268
Two penalty area incidents - holding and studs challenge - in one action for Taylor to assess (22')
ReplyDeletehttps://streambug.org/cv/c1d2dc
And very good onside by AR1 (and in second case also in cooperation with the referee) at 2:0
Deletehttps://streambug.org/cv/78eb1d
Zwayer getting lost in the 2nd half (after a very good 1st half)
ReplyDeleteWhy? Could you be more precise? Because I didn’t watch the game but I‘m very interested in how Zwayer refereed the match.
Delete58' OFR https://streambug.org/cv/71d3e5
Delete66' Second penalty, directly whistled https://streambug.org/cv/27ca0c
I think you can have doubts how much the first one was a "full" step on foot, hard to detect live, replay at monitor during OFR showed a different point of view. Zwayer didn't change idea immediately, but I think it will be assessed as correct OFR.
Second case, one could maybe say if not whistled live, no call by VAR.