The UEFA penalty has been lifted for Spanish international referees in Champions Leagues after none of its ten referees were appointed for the last two days of the maximum club competition. Nor for Europe and Conference League.
The Murcian international Sánchez Martínez has been appointed to referee the next day’s clash between Slovan Bratislava and Milan. Match where Muñiz Ruiz will also be the fourth referee and the two Madrid-born Carlos del Cerro and Valentín Pizarro will be in the VAR room.
The absence of the last third and fourth match days in Europe which, as we already explained in MD, was not due to a sporting or refereeing reason, but to discomfort within UEFA due to a leak about the interpretation of Cucurella’s hand in the hand of the last Euro Cup in Spain – Germany. And where UEFA considers that this action, unlike what IFAB states and what Anthony Taylor considers, should be done by hand. Something the European organization’s refereeing team has transferred to the play analysis videos it often sends to international referees.
With this new assignment this matter is considered settled. Sánchez Martínez joins two appointments last week in the Nations League. On the one hand, Gil Manzano who was in charge of refereeing for the Netherlands-Hungary and where he was joined as the fourth referee by Munuera Montero.
And among others Juan Martínez Munuera who whistled the clash between Türkiye and Wales as well as the Galician referee Muñiz Ruiz as the fourth referee. We will now see if more referees are appointed for Wednesday’s Champions League matchday or Thursday’s matchday in Europe and the Conference League.
Source: La Verdad
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