RateTheRef

28 October 2020

21:00 CET - Budapest (Ferencváros Stadion)
Ferencvárosi Torna Club (HUN) - FC Dynamo Kyiv (UKR)   | Group G
Referee: Ivan Kružliak (SVK)
Assistant Referee 1: Tomaš Somolani (SVK)
Assistant Referee 2: Cyril Gringore (FRA)
Fourth Official: Boris Marhefka (SVK)
Video Assistant Referee: Christian Dingert (GER)
Assistant Video Assistant Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (GER)
UEFA Referee Observer: Stavros Tritsonis (GRE)
UEFA Delegate: David McDowell Zor (SVN)

Wore yellow so not in my good books!  That aside it was a decent enough performance. Some grumbling from Fradi fans about the penalty, for me it was never a penalty BUT under the current LOTG and the utterly ridiculous HB law it was a correct call. I did spend some time explaining and it was accepted he had got it right & the issue is with the LOTG not the referee. Basically player dived in for a block, the ball bounced off his thigh onto his arm which was out to the side as he slid in. Impossible to slide in with your arms at your side but as the laws stand it was a penalty. Red card in the game - 2 correct yellow cards.  Got the important calls right, positioning, fitness decent foul detection good, fair & consistent. Aside of the yellow shirt I have no real complaints.