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I thought the penalty was stonewall, he was holding and pulling him for ages.  I think he was lucky for a second time not to see a red card.  I think he correctly turned down the penalty claim for O'Donnell's alleged handball as he was fouled right before it.  He was correct in law not to give the penalty for Hanley's push as ball not in play.  Thought some of the fouls were a bit strange both ways, none more so than the handball one he gave Austria at the end.  And you are quite correct the tackle on McGregor should have been a straight red.  Whilst I agree with the penalty decision I didn't think he was up to much and certainly not as good as the two referees we had last week.  From a Motherwell perspective, proud as punch with Stephen O'Donnell again!

Surprised Siebert got Poland v England after his performance in the Wales v Denmark game.

And he’s been less than satisfactory thus far…..

Quote from: DBLTFC on Wed 08 Sep 2021 20:03

Surprised Siebert got Poland v England after his performance in the Wales v Denmark game.

And he’s been less than satisfactory thus far…..

Another awful performance. Looked like a rabbit in headlights with the mass con. Does not convince at all. And this is supposed to be the future of German refereeing!

Quote from: tomp on Mon 06 Sep 2021 09:23

Wednesday 8th September 2021

Group B
20:45 CET - Athens (Olympic Athletic Center "Spyros Louis")
GREECE - SWEDEN
Referee: Sergei Karasev (RUS)
Assistant Referee 1: Igor Demeshko (RUS)
Assistant Referee 2: Maksim Gavrilin (RUS)
Fourth Official: Kirill Levnikov (RUS)
Video Assistant Referee: Vitaliy Meshkov (RUS)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Sergei Ivanov (RUS)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Konrad Plautz (AUT)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Armen Minasyan (ARM)

Good performance by Karasev yesterday. He was very lenient in foul detection with a few mistakes on the 2nd half. Disciplinay control was very good and all cautions spot-on.

He had to deal with 2 interesting situations:

12' Karasev whistles a penalty for Greece but AR2 flags for offside. VAR confirms the offside.

74' Greece scores the 2-0. AR1 flags for offside. VAR confirms the goal.

The only negative is the big delay by VAR (Meshkov) on the 2-0 by Greece. Meshkov was checking the offside call for about 5' before finally changing the decision to goal.

Definitely UEFA won't be satisfied with that.

Does the observer report on the VAR officials as well as the on field officials?
Given that it is Plautz and if they do, it definitely isn’t good news for Meshkov.

I see Conmebol have a VAR observer - maybe we see that too (esp if VAR is remote)

Oh goody - more jobs for the boys! 

The more match officials, observers and assessors that are appointed to the top games sucks the refereeing resources away from the grass roots of the game.  It also lowers the standard at the top and devalues the achievements of those reaching the very top versus those reaching the same status in years gone by.

8th October 2021

Group E
20:45 CET - Tallinn (A. Le Coq Arena)
ESTONIA - BELARUS
Referee: Mohammed Al-Hakim (SWE)
Assistant Referee 1: Mehmet Culum (SWE)
Assistant Referee 2: Mahbod Beigi (SWE)
Fourth Official: Bojan Pandzic (SWE)
Video Assistant Referee: Michael Fabbri (ITA)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Luca Mondin (ITA)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Styrbjörn Oskarsson (FIN)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Augustus Constantin (ROU)

Group E
20:45 CET - Prague (Eden Arena)
CZECH REPUBLIC - WALES
Referee: Deniz Aytekin (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Christian Dietz (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Dominik Schaal (GER)
Fourth Official: Martin Petersen (GER)
Video Assistant Referee: Felix Zwayer (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Marco Achmüller (GER)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Renatus Temmink (NED)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Christian Kofoed (DEN)

Group G
20:45 CET - Gibraltar (Victoria Stadium)
GIBRALTAR - MONTENEGRO
Referee: Filip Glova (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Peter Bednar (SVK) 
Assistant Referee 2: Daniel Polacek (SVK)
Fourth Official: Peter Kralovic (SVK)
Video Assistant Referee: Dennis Johan Higler (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Rob Dieperink (NED)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Stéphane Lannoy (FRA)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Duncan Fraser (SCO)

Group G
20:45 CET - Riga (Daugava)
LATVIA - NETHERLANDS
Referee: Andrew Madley (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Ian Hussin (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Harry Lennard (ENG)
Fourth Official: Robert Jones (ENG)
Video Assistant Referee: Paul Tierney (ENG)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Lee Betts (ENG)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Jouni Hyytiä (FIN)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Marcin Stefanski (POL)

Group G
20:45 CET - Istanbul (Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadyumu)
TURKEY - NORWAY
Referee: Felix Brych (GER)
Assistant Referee 1: Mark Borsch (GER)
Assistant Referee 2: Stefan Lupp (GER)
Fourth Official: Tobias Reichel (GER)
Video Assistant Referee: Marco Fritz (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Christian Gittelmann (GER)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Georgios Bikas (GRE)
FIFA Match Commissioner: David McDowell Zor (SVN)

Group H
20:45 CET - Ta' Qali (National Stadium)
MALTA - SLOVENIA
Referee: Anastasios Sidiropoulos (GRE)
Assistant Referee 1: Polychronis Kostaras (GRE)
Assistant Referee 2: Lazaros Dimitriadis (GRE)
Fourth Official: Anastasios Papapetrou (GRE)
Video Assistant Referee: Ioannis Papadopoulos (GRE)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Angelos Evangelou (GRE)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Edgar Steinborn (GER)
FIFA Match Commissioner:

Group H
20:45 CET - Larnaca (AEK Arena)
CYPRUS - CROATIA
Referee: Michael Oliver (ENG)
Assistant Referee 1: Stuart Burt (ENG)
Assistant Referee 2: Simon Bennett (ENG)
Fourth Official: Darren England (ENG)
Video Assistant Referee: Christopher Kavanagh (ENG)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Sian Massey-Ellis (ENG)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Lucílio Cardoso Cortez Batista (POR)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Luca Zorzi (SUI)

Group H
20:45 CET - Kazan (Kazan Arena)
RUSSIA - SLOVAKIA
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (ESP)
Assistant Referee 1: Pau Cebrián Devis (ESP)
Assistant Referee 2: Roberto Díaz Pérez Del Palomar (ESP)
Fourth Official: José Luis Munuera Montero (ESP)
Video Assistant Referee: Juan Martínez Munuera (ESP)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Teodoro Sobrino Magán (ESP)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Helmut Fleischer (GER)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Aurel Mihail Ionescu (ROU)

Group J
20:45 CET - Vaduz (Rheinpark Stadion)
LIECHTENSTEIN - NORTH MACEDONIA   
Referee: Bartosz Frankowski (POL)
Assistant Referee 1: Marcin Boniek (POL)
Assistant Referee 2: Jakub Winkler (POL)
Fourth Official: Krzysztof Jakubik (POL)
Video Assistant Referee: Pawel Raczkowski (POL)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Krzysztof Myrmus (POL)
FIFA Referee Assessor:  Aleksandr Gvardis (RUS)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Renata Tomášová (SVK)

Group J
20:45 CET - Reykjavík (Laugardalsvöllur)
ICELAND - ARMENIA
Referee: Nikola Dabanović (MNE)
Assistant Referee 1: Milutin Đukić (MNE)
Assistant Referee 2: Vladan Todorović (MNE)
Fourth Official: Miloš Bošković (MNE)
Video Assistant Referee: Kevin Blom (NED)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Clay Ruperti (NED)
FIFA Referee Assessor: John Ward (IRL)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Rudolphe Mannaerts (BEL)

Group J
20:45 CET - Hamburg (Volksparkstadion)
GERMANY - ROMANIA
Referee: Cüneyt Çakır (TUR)
Assistant Referee 1: Bahattin Duran (TUR)
Assistant Referee 2: Tarik Ongun (TUR)
Fourth Official:  Alper Ulusoy (TUR)
Video Assistant Referee: Mete Kalkavan (TUR)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Hüseyin Göçek (TUR)
FIFA Referee Assessor: Cyril Zimmermann (SUI)
FIFA Match Commissioner: Andrei Medintsev (BUL)           

Is that a good game for Madley edy? Agreed aytekin seems to be back in favour

A very good debut for Madley, I think he will be a lot happier than Oliver who has a poor game.

I am frankly surprised that Cakir has not been taken off this game (I assume appointment was made before the events in Milan) hopefully this means that the committee back him as they should because for me he had quite a good performance. Any issues with the penalty at the end were with the VAR, who, as has been pointed out on Law 5, has been replaced for this game.