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Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz has replaced Viktor Kassai in the Rangers v Feyenoord game.

Quote from: Vlad Vladadze on Tue 17 Sep 2019 15:08

Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz has replaced Viktor Kassai in the Rangers v Feyenoord game.

OH NO, DISASTER AT THE bmb HOUSEHOLD 😱😥

bmb was already aware - hence the change of plans comment 3 posts above this one!!

I am hopeful that a nice (large) glass of pálinka combined with #SolymosiWatch will aid me to get over my heartbreak!

Quote from: bmb on Tue 17 Sep 2019 16:27

Quote from: Hendo on Tue 17 Sep 2019 15:56

Quote from: Vlad Vladadze on Tue 17 Sep 2019 15:08

Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz has replaced Viktor Kassai in the Rangers v Feyenoord game.

OH NO, DISASTER AT THE bmb HOUSEHOLD 😱😥

bmb was already aware - hence the change of plans comment 3 posts above this one!!

I am hopeful that a nice (large) glass of pálinka combined with #SolymosiWatch will aid me to get over my heartbreak!

The reason of the change? Injury?

So I am told yes   Hopefully nothing major.

So this might be a silly question but I will ask anyway. Would a referee from any federation be given a game in a group that has a team from their home federation in it? I'm pretty sure none of our Hungarian refs would referee Fradi for example but would they get a game in the same group as Fradi?

VAR will be introduced into Europa League from start of knockout stage this season.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49815581

GROUP STAGE - MATCHDAY 2

Thursday 3 October 2019

16:50CET - Nur-Sultan (Astana Arena)
FC Astana (KAZ) - FK Partizan (SRB)  |  Group L
Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Fredrik Klyver (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Mahbod Beigi (SWE)
Fourth Official: Martin Strömbergsson (SWE)
UEFA Referee Observer: Ichko Lozev (BUL)
UEFA Delegate: Targo Kaldoja (EST)

18:55CET - Rotterdam (Stadion Feijenoord)
Feyenoord (NED) - FC Porto (POR)  |  Group G
Referee: Sergey Karasyov (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Igor Demeshko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Vitaliy Meshkov (RUS)
UEFA Referee Observer: Miroslav Liba (CZE)
UEFA Delegate: Armen Minasyan (ARM)

18:55CET - Berne (Stade de Suisse Wankdorf)
BSC Young Boys (SUI) - Rangers FC (SCO)  |  Group G
Referee: Manuel Schüttengruber (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Roland Brandner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Kühr (AUT)
Fourth Official: Christopher Jäger (AUT)
UEFA Referee Observer: Kevin Azzopardi (MLT)
UEFA Delegate: Duško Grabovac (CRO)

18:55CET - Budapest (Groupama Aréna)
Ferencvárosi TC (HUN) - PFC Ludogorets 1945 (BUL)  |  Group H
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Marcin Boniek (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Jakub Winkler (POL)
Fourth Official: Daniel Stefański (POL)
UEFA Referee Observer: Stephen Lodge (ENG)
UEFA Delegate: Björn Fecker (GER)

18:55CET - Moscow (VEB Arena)
PFC CSKA Moskva (RUS) - RCD Espanyol de Barcelona (ESP)  |  Group H
Referee: Ali Palabıyık (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Serkan Olguncan (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Mehmet Cem Satman (TUR)
Fourth Official: Mete Kalkavan (TUR)
UEFA Referee Observer: Levan Paniashvili (GEO)
UEFA Delegate: Fívos Konstantinídis (CYP)

18:55CET - Lviv (Arena Lviv)
FC Oleksandriya (UKR) - KAA Gent (BEL)  |  Group I
Referee: Jens Grabski Maae (DEN)
Assistant Referee 1: Jesper Dahl (DEN)
Assistant Referee 2: Victor Skytte (DEN)
Fourth Official: Jřrgen Daugbjerg Burchardt (DEN)
UEFA Referee Observer: Juan Antonio Fernández Marín (ESP)
UEFA Delegate: Eamon Naughton (IRL)

18:55CET - Saint-Étienne (Stade Geoffroy Guichard)
AS Saint-Étienne (FRA) - VfL Wolfsburg (GER)  |  Group I
Referee: Craig Pawson (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Lee Betts (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Ian Hussin (ENG)
Fourth Official: David Coote (ENG)
UEFA Referee Observer: Goran Mihaljević (MNE)
UEFA Delegate: David McDowell Zor (SVN)

18:55CET - Graz (Merkur Arena)
RZ Pellets Wolfsberger AC (AUT) - AS Roma (ITA)  |  Group J
Referee: Tiago Bruno Lopes Martins (POR)
Assistant Referee 1: Luís André Ferreira Pinto de Campos (POR)
Assistant Referee 2: Pedro Miguel Almeida da Mota (POR)
Fourth Official: Hugo Filipe Ferreira de Campos Moreira Miguel (POR)
UEFA Referee Observer: Bo Karlsson (SWE)
UEFA Delegate: Gijs de Jong (NED)

18:55CET - Istanbul (3. İstanbul Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu)
Medipol Başakşehir FK (TUR) - Borussia Mönchengladbach (GER)  |  Group J
Referee: Stuart Attwell (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Constantine Hatzidakis (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Cook (ENG)
Fourth Official: Andrew Madley (ENG)
UEFA Referee Observer: Emil Božinovski (MKD)
UEFA Delegate: Siarhiej Iĺič (BLR)

18:55CET - Braga (Estádio Municipal de Braga)
SC Braga (POR) - ŠK Slovan Bratislava (SVK)  |  Group K
Referee: Adrien Jaccottet (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Vital Jobin (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Raffael Zeder (SUI)
Fourth Official: Alain Bieri (SUI)
UEFA Referee Observer: Draženko Kovačič (CRO)
UEFA Delegate: Anton Fagan (SCO)

18:55CET - Istanbul (Vodafone Park)
Beşiktaş JK (TUR) - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC (ENG)  |  Group K
Referee: Harald Lechner (AUT)
Assistant Referee 1: Andreas Heidenreich (AUT)
Assistant Referee 2: Maximilian Kolbitsch (AUT)
Fourth Official: Julian Weinberger (AUT)
UEFA Referee Observer: Kaj Řstergaard (DEN)
UEFA Delegate: Roland Tis (BEL)

18:55CET - The Hague (Cars Jeans Stadion)
AZ Alkmaar (NED) - Manchester United FC (ENG)  |  Group L
Referee: Gediminas Mažeika (LTU)
Assistant Referee 1: Vytautas Šimkus (LTU)
Assistant Referee 2: Vytenis Kazlauskas (LTU)
Fourth Official: Robertas Valikonis (LTU)
UEFA Referee Observer: Sokol Jareci (ALB)
UEFA Delegate: Karl Espen Eriksen (NOR)

21:00CET - Luxembourg (Stade Josy Barthel)
F91 Dudelange (LUX) - Qarabağ FK (AZE)  |  Group A
Referee: John Beaton (SCO)
Assistant Referee 1: Daniel McFarlane (SCO)
Assistant Referee 2: Douglas Potter (SCO)
Fourth Official: Donald Robertson (SCO)
UEFA Referee Observer: Jon Eilif Skjervold (NOR)
UEFA Delegate: Michael Zoratti (AUT)

21:00CET - Seville (Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán)
Sevilla FC (ESP) - APOEL FC (CYP)  |  Group A
Referee: Bas Nijhuis (NED)
Assistant Referee 1: Johan Balder (NED)
Assistant Referee 2: Joost van Zuilen (NED)
Fourth Official: Jeroen Manschot (NED)
UEFA Referee Observer: Ferenc Székely (HUN)
UEFA Delegate: Graham Hover (ENG)

21:00CET - St. Gallen (Kybunpark)
FC Lugano (SUI) - FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)  |  Group B
Referee: Karim Abed (FRA)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehdi Rahmouni (FRA)
Assistant Referee 2: Benjamin Pagčs (FRA)
Fourth Official: Florent Batta (FRA)
UEFA Referee Observer: Vlado Svilokos (CRO)
UEFA Delegate: Claude Kremer (LUX)

21:00CET - Malmö (Stadion)
Malmö FF (SWE) - FC Křbenhavn (DEN)  |  Group B
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Eduard Beitinger (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Rafael Foltyn (GER)
Fourth Official: Benjamin Cortus (GER)
UEFA Referee Observer: Roberto Rosetti (ITA)
UEFA Delegate: Styrbjörn Oskarsson (FIN)

21:00CET - Krasnodar (Stadion "Krasnodar")
FC Krasnodar (RUS) - Getafe CF (ESP)  |  Group C
Referee: Ivan Bebek (CRO)
Assistant Referee 1: Goran Pataki (CRO)
Assistant Referee 2: Bojan Zobenica (CRO)
Fourth Official: Mario Zebec (CRO)
UEFA Referee Observer: Nicolae Grigorescu (ROU)
UEFA Delegate: Jānis Mežeckis (LVA)

21:00CET - Trabzon (Şenol Güneş Spor Kompleksi Medical Park Stadyumu)
Trabzonspor (TUR) - FC Basel 1893 (SUI)  |  Group C
Referee: Marco Di Bello (ITA)
Assistant Referee 1: Alessandro Costanzo (ITA)
Assistant Referee 2: Matteo Passeri (ITA)
Fourth Official: Rosario Abisso (ITA)
UEFA Referee Observer: Fritz Stuchlik (AUT)
UEFA Delegate: Róbert Kispál (HUN)

21:00CET - Trondheim (Lerkendal Stadion)
Rosenborg BK (NOR) - PSV Eindhoven (NED)  |  Group D
Referee: Halil Umut Meler (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Mustafa Emre Eyisoy (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Cevdet Kömürcüoğlu (TUR)
Fourth Official: Arda Kardeşler (TUR)
UEFA Referee Observer: Nikolay Ivanov (RUS)
UEFA Delegate: Róbert Birgir Agnarsson (ISL)

21:00CET - Lisbon (Estádio José Alvalade)
Sporting CP (POR) - Linzer ASK (AUT)  |  Group D
Referee: Alain Durieux (LUX)
Assistant Referee 1: Gilles François Becker (LUX)
Assistant Referee 2: Joaquim Da Silva (LUX)
Fourth Official: Laurent Kopriwa (LUX)
UEFA Referee Observer: Bernardino González Vázquez (ESP)
UEFA Delegate: Charles John Grundie (NIR)

21:00CET - Rome (Stadio Olimpico)
SS Lazio (ITA) - Stade Rennais FC (FRA)  |  Group E
Referee: Serhiy Boyko (UKR)
Assistant Referee 1: Volodymyr Volodin (UKR)
Assistant Referee 2: Oleksandr Voytyuk (UKR)
Fourth Official: Vitaliy Romanov (UKR)
UEFA Referee Observer: Geórgios Bíkas (GRE)
UEFA Delegate: Andrew Shaw (ENG)

21:00CET - Glasgow (Celtic Park)
Celtic FC (SCO) - CFR 1907 Cluj (ROU)  |  Group E
Referee: Daniel Siebert (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Jan Seidel (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Lupp (GER)
Fourth Official: Harm Osmers (GER)
UEFA Referee Observer: Martin Ingvarsson (SWE)
UEFA Delegate: Steen Michael Dahrup (DEN)

21:00CET - Guimarăes (Estádio D. Afonso Henriques)
Vitória SC (POR) - Eintracht Frankfurt (GER)  |  Group F
Referee: Radu Marian Petrescu (ROU)
Assistant Referee 1: Radu Adrian Ștefan Ghinguleac (ROU)
Assistant Referee 2: Mircea Mihail Grigoriu (ROU)
Fourth Official: Marcel Bîrsan (ROU)
UEFA Referee Observer: Rune Pedersen (NOR)
UEFA Delegate: Eugčne Westerink (NED)

21:00CET - London (Emirates Stadium)
Arsenal FC (ENG) - Royal Standard de Ličge (BEL)  |  Group F
Referee: Sandro Schärer (SUI)
Assistant Referee 1: Stéphane De Almeida (SUI)
Assistant Referee 2: Bekim Zogaj (SUI)
Fourth Official: Fedayi San (SUI)
UEFA Referee Observer: Kýros Vassáras (GRE)
UEFA Delegate: Martin Sturkenboom (NED)

I wonder why Aytekin is being observed by Rosetti. Scharer with an important observer too at the Emirates.

Good game for Attwell, and no surprise Pawson is appointed given his team in Sunday at Leicester. Both have insignificant observers.

Games for Pawson and Attwell, and good to see Coote and A Madley as FOs. I'd guess there's a decent chance Coote might get his FIFA badge come January - I'd guess Hooper won't be getting that honour imminently.

I'm not sure what A Madley's teaching commitments are these days or if he is concentrating pretty much solely on refereeing. If he is willing then perhaps a FIFA badge could follow for him come the start of 2021. I do fear this might mean that Madley will again not have a PL game this coming weekend.