The UEFA has already lifted the punishment for the Spanish international referees in the Champions Leagues after none of its ten referees were appointed for the last two days of the maximum club competition. Nor for the Europa y Conference League.
The Murcian international Sánchez Martínez has been appointed to referee the clash the day after tomorrow between Slovan Bratislava and Milan. Match where there will also be Muñiz Ruiz as the fourth referee and the two Madrid-born Carlos del Cerro and Valentín Pizarro will be in the VAR room.
An absence in the last third and fourth matchdays in Europe that, as we already explained in MD, was not due to a sporting or refereeing reason, but to the discomfort within UEFA due to a leak regarding the interpretation of Cucurella’s hand in the hand of the last Euro Cup in Spain – Germany. And where UEFA considered that this action, unlike what the IFAB includes and what Anthony Taylor considered, must be hand-made. Something that the refereeing team of the European organization transferred in the play analysis videos that it usually sends to international referees.
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With this new designation this matter is considered settled. Sánchez Martínez joins the two appointments last week in the Nations League. On the one hand, Gil Manzano who was in charge of blowing the whistle for the Netherlands-Hungary and where he was accompanied as the fourth referee by Munuera Montero.
And on the other Juan Martínez Munuera who whistled the clash between Türkiye and Wales also with the Galician referee Muñiz Ruiz as the fourth referee. We will now see if there are more referees appointed for Wednesday’s Champions League matchday or Thursday’s matchday in the Europa and Conference League.
