English derby for German referee Felix Zwayer, in charge of Europa League final. Good luck to him and his crew!
21 May 2025, 21:00 CET - Bilbao, ESP (Estadio de San Mamés)
Tottenham Hotspur FC (ENG) - Manchester United FC (ENG)
Referee: Felix Zwayer GER
Assistant Referee 1: Robert Kempter GER
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Dietz GER
Fourth Official: Maurizio Mariani ITA
Reserve Assistant Referee: Daniele Bindoni ITA
Tottenham Hotspur FC (ENG) - Manchester United FC (ENG)
Referee: Felix Zwayer GER
Assistant Referee 1: Robert Kempter GER
Assistant Referee 2: Christian Dietz GER
Fourth Official: Maurizio Mariani ITA
Reserve Assistant Referee: Daniele Bindoni ITA
Video Assistant Referee: Bastian Dankert GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Benjamin Brand GER
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Benjamin Brand GER
Video Assistant Referee Support: Carlos del Cerro Grande ESP
UEFA Referee Observer: Carlos Velasco Carballo ESP
UEFA Delegate: Ronald Zimmermann GER
UEFA Referee Observer: Carlos Velasco Carballo ESP
UEFA Delegate: Ronald Zimmermann GER
Officiating kits for tonight?
ReplyDeleteYes, will be provided.
DeleteYes, I meant colour:)
DeleteShould be blue, at least they wear blue socks.
DeleteYes it is the blue kit
DeleteConsidering UEFA 'renew' their Macron kits once every two years, I lowkey expected Zwayer's crew to wear a new kit design. Not the case.
DeleteThanks for info,guys!
DeleteNew shirts are usually issued for the Champions League final?
Delete14'
ReplyDeleteIn many games,Zwayer would have showed there YC.
Clear hand/elbow to the face.
Very minimal contact though. You can definitely argue that it's careless rather than reckless
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ReplyDeleteBoth teams are playing in a typical British manner, many duels to assess and, unfortunately, some blatant fouls missed plus not the best management of the YC to Diallo for LoR holding - it looked like the card was shown only because of mobbing (Zwayer reflected on this and warned both Tottenham players afterwards). It was close to losing control between 30' and 40' but no further controversial calls saved Zwayer.
Zwayer was also mobbed by three Tottenham players in 24'(ish), but the broadcast didn't really pick it up, he gave a verbal warning (and didn't take a strong enough attitude imo). Diallo's c.advantage yellow is a perfect example for 'LoR not SPA' and it is a pity that if not for mobbing, that very likely it wouldn't have been given. Both teams are playing rather nervously and it is surely a hard game in which to win much as the referee. Zwayer got much too emotionally invested in dealing with Fernandes also in this 30'-40' period and seemed a little flustered.
DeleteOverall okay though in my book, all things considered.
eklatante Fouls übersehen, leider nur eine pauschale Aussage. Welches denn?
ReplyDelete32:05, 35:40, 38:30
DeleteRather challenging match but I would say Zwayer is doing OK overall and even made some great no-calls. YC to Diallo is appropriate given the blatant and long holding.
ReplyDeleteToo easy on the whistle and too lenient in terms of Tottenham's time wasting.
ReplyDeleteNow clear foul missed by AR2 right in front of him
ReplyDeleteI'm obviously watching a different game! Not a tough game to referee as most players are just getting on with it
ReplyDeleteI actually think the yellow card for the hold in 1H was well managed. Got rid of the Spurs players then cautioned
Let's say it's not a perfect performance but so far, given the British approach of the teams, no problems at all for the German. How much different are these games even when intense, if compared to the ones involving Italian and Spanish sides before the others...
DeleteNow in 76' a missed foul outside the box, Zwayer assigned a goal kick.In case it had happened inside the box, possible VAR intervention.
poor refereeing, clear fouls not called deserving of yc
DeletePretty poor display from Zwayer given how easy the game has been to referee
ReplyDeleteMissed SYC to Tottenham no8 (86’) but it seems nobody really clocked it!
ReplyDeleteFor me is this appointment not the right one. I have said this earlier after the announcing.
ReplyDeletePoor sf at euro's.
And know its not a trust full performance.
You have need the authority at some moments... but he hasnt that.
It is shaky.
Kovacs and Peljto are better choices for me.
Not a perfect performance from Zwayer, but good without any major errors. There's no talk of the referee.
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DeleteYep. Not bad, not great either. 8.2/8.3 area
DeleteGood performance by Zwayer, without major errors. At the end, when nobody talk about referee, its best possible officiating.He justified appoitment.
ReplyDeleteLots of time wasting going on - unnoticed. Or noticed - but not giving anything but 4-5-6 warnings to Tottenham players. Vicario running the opposite way of where the ball is crossing the line. Not good enough just to point at your watch 'indicating' time will be added, when play is broken up time-and-time again. Used to like Zwayer's but this is just to vague..
ReplyDeleteTo me, a rather below expected level performance by Zwayer, in a not very challenging game. It wasn't an easy one, but too many mistakes by the German, was unable to show a full control and appeared very often unsure about the calls. I think he suffered the big game, but the nationality of the teams definitely helped him. Could have been by far worse without Englis clubs... if this was an occasion for him to show he deserved this call or more, he didn't pass the test, Iwould dare to say, and honestly today one could say he reached the maximum he could get with this one.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree. This big present from Rosetti will be not better for him in the future.
DeleteI also think Collina watch this and can conclude that this is not a top referee from Uefa.
I don't share your opinion, it's okay, it wasn't perfect but that doesn't mean that his appointment wasn't deserved. And yes, he is a TOP UEFA referee so he will be present in the USA in the coming months ;)
DeleteToo many fouls missed and poor management of YC to Diallo and conflicts involving Maguire in the 2H to call it a good, expected level performance but no KMIs and overall good rapport with players make it 'still okay' (according to current standards...)
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, I don't think Zwayer did too badly today. Overall, I think it was a good performance.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks he's bad should just whistle. :)
Congratulations, Felix ! 👌🏻✌🏻
86': https://www.streambug.io/cv/447f38
ReplyDeleteNot the best broadcaster today, the situation went quite unnoticed also because no replay. It seems a rather clear YC from this live sequence.
DeleteStill waiting for rewatching again also the penalty area incident a few minutes before final whistle, if you ask me Zwayer didn't struggle that much to have the best positioning, but very likely it was nothing!
Overall it was probably a bit too chaotic but still, indeed, okay in my view. The big problem in Zwayer matches for a long time was that, at least it seemed to me, that the German lacked belief in his 'work' on the field of play - but this season he really managed to disabuse that and become a technically excellent referee. Perhaps that old tendency came back a little bit in this final, but not excessively I would say.
DeleteI concur with your view about the 86' situation, it does seem to be a clear YC according to this sequence.
DeleteOverall, I would also deem this performance an "OK" one: certainly not perfect, but not exactly bad either. From a technical point of view, he definitely missed a number of fouls (e. g. 33', 36', 39', 76') and struggled to ensure full control in some situations, with the 30' - 40' period and Maguire vs Romero incidents in the 2H mostly coming to mind. On the other hand, I'm mostly satisfied with his disciplinary approach, except in the aforementioned 86' incident. Also, I should probably mention he should have reacted more strongly on some DtR incidents, although the 68' YC to TOT8 was certainly a nice scene.
However, he never really lost control over this match, had a rather good rapport with the players (with a few exceptions, f.e. 24') and finished the game with no controversial calls, including KMIs. Overall, even with the 86' incident, I think we saw a decent referee performance, but certainly not a perfect one. IMHO, Zwayer was a bit "shaky" regarding self-confidence tonight. I had a feeling he wasn't fully "comfortable" on the FoP, however he is certainly a better referee than before, with much more experience, and that experience was probably crucial for him to perform successfully tonight. In the end, a performance without major controversy and Zwayer can probably be satisfied overall (I know I would be in his place).
Mood here just as I suspected. Zwayer had a very good match where both teams accepted him and his style and nobody talks about him after the game.
ReplyDeleteBut here on The Famous Referee Blog we can see keyboard-warriors nitpicking to make themselves feel important. First it is about the game, then it is about the fans and the players and the teams.
And even after that there are many-many (did I say many?) things before we come to referees whose role is to serve the game. Football needs natural referees, not manufactured ones. Zwayer did himself proud!
Exactly the reason why i’m not reading to much the comments indeed! In this blog so many people think they are the great Collina , Frisk, Puhl and so on themself, but i realy doubt…. Iff they ever refereed a match themself, to give a score to a international top referee, or to tell Zwayer is not an international top referee (Germany….. is one of the biggest leagues from Europa) and to tell Zwayer didn’t deserve the final…. Who are those super arrogant people….,…. Definetly not people who in future are gonna be Zwayers successor, think about your own level, before you start to critiscize the best referees in the world! Even iff Zwayer made little mistakes, even when he made bigg mistakes, still he should be proud… he refereed a European final…. Wich probably… almost sure off that none off the blogg readers and writers did!
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Delete@Erik,
DeleteIts normal that People has a different opinion.
And yess i have whistled on a lower level.
I dont have anything personal to Zwayer.
But his attitude isnt convincing.
That is my opinion.
But all goods to him in the future
Why does it have to be so black and white? You can both praise the referee and say the appointment is fully deserved AND have the opinion that his final performance wasn't that great.
DeleteGood performance of Zwayer but not excellent; to me he has been too much lenient at the beginning of the match and this could have risked to lose the control of the match. He fit all the technical decisions but was too lazy on disciplinary control. IMO if he have issued more YC at the begin when players started to be nervous, they would have been more respectful later, in the 2nd half
ReplyDeleteIt's not okay when you criticize ref,it's not okay when you praise too much.
ReplyDeleteBalance can't be found.
And as far as I know,this is blog where freedom of speech is allowed,everybody cant be right all the time and we all cant agree all the time.
We can have different views and opinions ,not everyone here is expert or has experience like Rizzoli,Brych or Cakir.
But then again,if some people know more about laws of the game or refereeing,they can teach some of us that dont know that much.
And about Zwayer...
General opinion is that Zwayer had solid match and I agree with that statement.
But we definitely saw him in better performances and we definitely saw him when he was at top of his game.
Yesterday that was not the case.
Number of missed fouls,some of them potentially dangerous(foul on Johnson worthy of a YC in 1st half,or foul on Shaw right outside the box),allowing too much verbal conflicts that could have resulted badly(Maguire-Romero),some clear missed or not on purpose given YC's.
Yep, english teams were in the Final,but just imagine if he had some spanish or italian teams.
Could have resulted badly.
I agree,he had solid performance and most importantly,he wont be the main theme after the match.
But imo he was far better in PSG-Arsenal match or recent CL matches(Benfica vs Barca,Atalanta vs Brugge).
But then again,Final match is always tricky and not easy to handle.
As blog readers, you will surely remember my thoughts on Zwayer before last night. I thought he could have got even CL final as candidate, and I was ready to judge his performance very positively, however I must admit, in this match he lacked that little something extra that he had shown recently, leading him to an improvement (exactly what you said). I didn't expect ihis outcome but possible that he suffered the big match, together with trying to be involved as little as possible (this is the problem of the big finals nowadays).
DeleteHowever, for me, given how he refereed, it is difficult to think of him for more demanding matches than this, he doesn't give me the confidence and I think that perhaps in the end the committee thought about it a lot. But based on yesterday, the Europa League final seems to have been the greatest possible success for him.
As for the blog, the usual discussions we read, today there aren't nuances in judgments, either everything is fine without major errors, or it is a disaster. To say that the refereeing was below standard, perhaps not bad, but he could have done better, seems to be hardly an opinion. I think this also comes from the inability to make very detailed evaluations and always trying to go for one way or the other (bad or good). Very negative way of thinking. Because every just sufficient performance can then become good, while those who see it as negative will say a disaster. Really incredible to me. It wasn't like this before, I think that the competence in evaluating, due to the rush that this modern society has given to people, seems to have disappeared. Addo to that, people who are not objective, there should be always a very neutral eye. For example, those who are used to games without many fouls can criticize the refereee because he whistled too much, other people could say he missed clear fouls. So it's very hard, but I can just suggest to compare the yesterday game to Marciniak CL semifinal. I think that Zwayer would have been in more than big trouble with same approach and maybe, as I said above, there is a reason why he got only this one after a more than big focus by UEFA. One can be even satisfied with the performance, but as referee experts we must say he was not perfect, and it's hard at moment to think he could get even more. This is said from a very neutral point of view, nobody wants to deny that officiating finals it's hard stuff, but there were definitely more challenging games than yesterday's one.
Chefren, don't you think Zwayers approach of this game was based on the fact it where 2 English teams?
DeleteI think his approach would have been very different in case it would have been a Spanish and an Italian team for exempel.
isn't this addaption' of style to a game not just a thing where some referees should be praised for, the fact they try to referee in a way the players are used to in their home country, wich is only possible in a match where 2 teams come from the same country....
It's possible that he made this choice and he was different in this game, on can't exclude that. However, for me, he didn't ensure the best officiating there, he should have shown a better performance for my taste and I'm in trouble to say that he was good, at an expected level, even moer having watched him before. Should have joined more the gamein crucial moments, but again, the fact that in the end it wasn't that challenging, can give the opinion everything was OK if one doesn't want to go in detail to analyze.
Delete@Chefren: When will Serie A referee assignments for the upcoming matches be published?
ReplyDeleteThey have been already published.
Deletehttps://www.aia-figc.it/dettaglio.asp?ID=25315
Last matchday.
You have La Penna, as I expected, in Napoli - Cagliari, most important game for the title. Then, Massa follows in Como.
Mariani was an option, but after Rocchi admitted the mistake by VAR in coppa Italia final (missed RC for VC), it wasn't possible anymore to appoint him, too much discussed and in the spotlights.
Doveri, despite of the OFR at the very end of Parma - Napoli, confirmed for a crucial relegation game.
Names like Fabbri and Colombo for the other crucial games (relegation and CL qualification).
Some referees are given very likely their goodbye (Monaldi and Rutella).
Thanks!
Delete@chefren, thank you! what happened to italien top referee maria caputi? i read only 2 matches in serie a this season? the last one in november? only 13 matches in three years? was she pushed too quickly? she wasnt injured, as we she was refereeing serie b and womens international regurlarly? can you give us insights?
DeleteNo surprise with Doveri 😀 .
DeleteOf course he gets important match.
Big games also for Fabbri and Colombo.
The theme with Inter fans are some of the decisions that went against them throughout the season.
No penalty vs Roma,no penalty vs Milan and some other decisions.
But with recent times,that no penalty vs Roma could be crucial cause 1 point could decide outcome.
Also,there were some words about Guida and his presence in VAR room when crucial decisions were taken against Inter in their last match vs Lazio.
I mean Guida is from Napoli area so very unusual choice by Rocchi and crew to appoint him there,cause conspiracy theories will always be and this just fueles them even more.
You talk about conspiracy theories and also say "there were some words about Guida and his presence in VAR room when crucial decisions were taken against Inter in their last match vs Lazio." lol
DeleteLong story about Guida, I should always write many messages here about Italian refereeing and some readers can be bored. But I just answer questions :) Yes, Guida was assigned as AVAR to Inter - Lazio, crucial game for the title (we will know if 100% tomorrow in the evening with the last matches), after his statements he made about the fact that he decided not to officiate Napoli, along with Maresca, for personal safety reasons. So, what was the sense of putting him there? It was a fully wrong assignment by Rocchi, then the famous handball penalty in the last minutes happened, and you have the final outcome. Absolutely to be avoided. Now he can't officiate, as still Italian nr. 1 referee, Inter anymore. Is that a success?
DeleteBut the clip from VAR in Inter - Lazio was show and it was Di Paolo, main VAR, to do everything. Guida stayed always silent.
A pity because you can't work in this way, but this is how AIA loves the make things complicated for them...
BTW Inter - Roma was a clear penalty for Rocchi and he said that during a meeting they had, this was known thank to an indirect way, not an official statement by Rocchi, but it was impossible for them to say it in public. This missed VAR intervention (Di Bello with Fabbri pitch referee) can be 100% title decider, as Inter could have won that game... a very poor end of season, I must say. Will answer now on Ferrieri Caputi, an incredible and particular case.
DeleteAs for Maria Sole Ferrieri Caputi, it must be said that until some time ago, more precisely until the start of this season, everything seemed normal, as you could see yourselves: debut in Serie A, then a few matches followed. But unfortunately, she has completely disappeared since then. I must admit that, both in Serie A and in her not-so-frequent appearances, she has performed quite poorly in Serie B this year, in fact, terribly, one must say in certain occasions.
DeleteHowever, if I look at the bigger picture and how she was being used before, especially shortly after her arrival in Serie A, and compare that to how she's being used now, I have to say that yoy can't find any logic there. Either she was overused before, or now she is being drastically underused. The truth is that she contributed, unfortunately, to everything going wrong.
That said, Rocchi's committee hasn't managed her situation in a linear or coherent way. If this is the outcome, it means they either exaggerated at the beginning or,I don't know, now they see her differently. Sadly, there are some truly unforgivable mistakes she made. Maybe I'll be able to find a few examples and post some links, just to clarify the situation, not to attack her, but just to explain.
On the international women's level, she still remains among the number ones. Silvia Gasperotti has now caught up with her, but Ferrieri Caputi will be at the upcoming EURO and is also in contention for the World Cup. However, it's now even easier to understand that the international women's scene is a completely different world compared to the domestic league, especially when the same referee officiates matches involving male teams.
As for the question about her limited overall appearances this season: unfortunately, many international commitments. She even took part in a FIFA youth World Cup this season, as you may recall. She was also regularly involved in the Women's Champions League and other women's matches atr UEFA. So, in a way, her being used as a "token" was one of the contributing factors to her collapse in terms of a concrete refereeing career path. But in my view, she also played a major role in the lack of her own progress.
Just one recent example from serie B.
DeleteI hope you can watch this video outside Italy, I think so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96-jOza3Qc
Sassuolo - Carrarese, her recent last appearance, go to 03:00.
This is something you must absolutely spot live.
@Beta and where's the problem?
DeleteWas decision taken against Inter?Yes.
Was Guida in VAR room?
Yes.
Will there be conspiracy theories?
Yes.
So what's the problem?
You are insinuating that Guida's presence there had some sort of influence without any facts just that "he was in the room". That's the problem. If you don't see it, then we shouldn't discuss.
DeleteSimply, the circumstance shouldn't have happened.
DeleteIt's clear that Guida did the best and there isn't any doubt. but it was absurd to make that appointment!
People are only waiting for that to talk about scandals.
The focus should be more on Inter - Roma where a penalt y was officially assessed as clear misse by referee and VAR in the end of the game, for this reason Inter can be definitely angry. I think at UEFA level Rosetti (I'm sure he already saw this situation) would be shocked to see a missed VAR intervention for that.
Very often it is reported that UEFA an domestic federations try to talk same language in terms of refereeing, that's absoluely false so far. In Italy there is a by far different standard, tolerating each protest and dissent and then allowing all kind of holdings.. the European world of refereeing must be aware of that!
FFF just published the official ranking for Ligue 1 referees this season :
ReplyDelete1. Benoît Bastien
2. Jérôme Brisard
3. Clément Turpin
4. Willy Delajod
5. François Letexier
6. Jérémie Pignard
7. Éric Wattellier
8. Thomas Léonard
9. Jérémy Stinat
10. Stéphanie Frappart
11. Mathieu Vernice
12. Marc Bollengier
13. Abdelatif Kherradji
14. Hakim Ben El Hadj
15. Romain Lissorgue
16. Bastien Dechepy
17. Gaël Angoula
18. Benoît Millot
19. Florent Batta (demoted to Ligue 2)
Promoted to Ligue 1 :
1. Ruddy Buquet
2. Guillaume Paradis
I guess Buquet (a referee who at one time was a candidate to become a UEFA Elite) must have been very noticeably above the level of his Fédéral 2 peers if FFF saw the necessity to re-promote him at 48 years old.
DeleteExtremely impressive at that age and after that career to put in the effort to be promoted following demotion, when most referees would have given up.
DeleteBuquet wasn’t actually demoted at the end of last season based on his level of performance (he was ranked 4th out of 20 referees). He failed fitness tests in September (fitness tests have been made immensely harder this season in France, at every level of refereeing), and was demoted for this reason.
DeleteBut one can easily understand that the 4th best referee in Ligue 1 last year was very much above the others in Ligue 2 this season.
@ref: how did fff make the tests harder? i think in europe sds test or fifa-hiit is the standard in professional football, right? does ligue 2 have a different test which he passed?
Delete@ref: another question: what is this ranking based on? observer-marks? impressions by referee-committee? scores by l'equipe, le monde, etc.? how is this ranking composed?
Delete@grumpy-ref : this season was the first in which the SDS test was implemented at all levels of French refereeing, and many referees were surprised by its difficulty, if compared to the previous test in place (TAISA). Several referees were demoted at the beginning of the season, including Buquet.
DeleteSecond question : officially, the ranking is based exclusively on the observers marks on the games. However, we all know how subjective factors can interfere. Last year, Gaillouste was demoted and there was absolutely no reason for that (5th out of 16 this year in Ligue 2). Frappart 5th 2 years ago was not deserved. Schneider demoted 4 years ago was very suspicious too.
That being said, I think that this ranking is the most accurate we’ve had by years.
- Top 3 is very logical : Bastien had an outstanding domestical season (rewarded with Cup Final), Brisard and Turpin were very good too.
- Pignard, Wattellier and Delajod were trusted with big games and they delivered good performances
- Letexier 5th is even a bit too high IMO, but I don’t think they could’ve ranked the Euro final referee lower.
- Leonard 8th with a very good season too.
- Quite good 13th place for newbie Kherradji, who had some excellent games ; could’ve been international if not 39 yo.
- Dechepy, Angoula and especially Millot had dreadful seasons, and are logically at the bottom of the ranking (I think Millot could’ve been demoted if Batta wasn’t there).
- And finally Batta demoted is absolutely logical, and it should’ve been the case by years. He really is far below the 18 others, and always gets the worst games. I believe he would’ve been demoted last year if the (weird) demotion of Gaillouste hasn’t occured (he was second to last).
thank you, ref!
Deletesds is without a doubt the most challenging test in my eyes. implementing this even down to the grassroots levels, where we all know how big the shortage of referees is, wow...i dont know if the referee commissions are so happy about this in retrospect?
and of course you are right, marking referees is always subjective. also it is to argue, is a referee with an average of 8,37 better than a referee with 8,36? not at all^^ from a statistical standpoint, it is more important to look what is "behind the numbers" to create a value by this data...a mere average ranking has very limited value... number of matches, difficulty and intensity of matches, variety of observers, and much more, is not comparable...maybe one can argue that a ranking gives some insights on the very top and the very bottom...but for the 80% in the middle not really worthy...
Long VAR check in Napoli for a possible red card. Eventually nothing given. Silly action from the Cagliari defender but not really any clear angle to show a red card offence imo
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a red card on the one view I had. The Pepe Reina one on the other hand is extremely harsh
DeleteExcellent performance by La Penna in Naples.
DeleteHe handled the situation in the first half very well regarding the potential red card for the Cagliari player, but I believe it's acceptable that VAR chose not to intervene, even though it was a risky action. There were some communication issues with the VAR room. The Roman referee managed the aftermath of the mass confrontation with great personality. His growling presence on the pitch is exactly what many lower-quality Serie A referees, including some internationals, are missing. He was the right choice for this match.
As for the Como match, Mazzoleni is a very particular VAR, as we know him.
He bases his decisions on the reality and expectations of a football game, not on the "abstract" protocol. So, even though in the case of the Como goalkeeper one could have interpreted it as a yellow card since the play moved wide and the player would have had to turn, even without the goalkeeper, with another defender, Mazzoleni, true to his style, highlighted the missed foul as being too significant to ignore and thus intervened on that basis, resulting in a red card. I agree it's not a 100% clear-cut call, but on the pitch, when a goalkeeper commits a foul outside the box, the expected decision is almost always a red card.
Massa didn't end the season at the top, the same he had shown in Lazio-Juventus, but today he was appointed to this match because, among the available referees, he was the best possible. I had already mentioned earlier the catastrophic situation of Rocchi, who fortunately managed to close the season in some way.
I get I'm used to a very high bar for VAR intervention in England, but I think the going away from the goal, and covering defender arguments are strong enough for YC to be the preferred decision anyroad, and certainly not a clear and obvious error with the referee's call, even if it is a missed foul. A shame for Reina's long career to end this way
DeleteLa Penna was excellent. Very impressive
ReplyDeleteI saw La Penna first time... And if this is his normal level, I dont understand why we dont see him in top international games . Very convincing!
DeleteAbout Zwayer : We should not forget all those english negative press comments about him being involved in the big betting scandal in Berlin. Even I still have serious doubts about his role at that time, but there NEVER has been a clear evidence or proof against him. If this is the ouverture before you even start the match, you can loose part of your normal sovereignty easily...
Zwayer is really good about his technical skills, no doubt. His communication got better last years. But his remaining problem is his lack of "natural authority and charisma." It is very hard to find a way to get that by the time, hard struggle, but it is possible, remember the first years of Turpin. He really achieved that and thats why I am always so happy to watch him now. The next German International referee who might add this little, but important extra to his technical accuracy might be Jablonski. I really hope so...
OT: István Vad (Viktor Kassai' s famous AAR in England-Ukraine in 2012) retired from refereeing in Hungary yesterday.He had 5 Champions league matches. He retired in Paks-Kecskemét in a cardless match.
ReplyDeleteHowever Katalin Kulcsár got his second Hungarian Divison match today.