UEFA have now confirmed the record of match officers to take cost of Manchester Metropolis’s penultimate outing within the league section of this season’s Champions League.
Pep Guardiola and his gamers discover themselves at critical threat of elimination on the first hurdle of this season’s competitors following a string of vastly underwhelming outcomes which have left them languishing in twenty second coming into the ultimate two matches of the league section.
A 4-1 drubbing by the hands of Sporting CP in November was adopted by a damning 3-3 draw at dwelling to Feyenoord, regardless of holding a three-goal benefit over the Dutch facet heading into the ultimate quarter-hour of the competition.
It was then a visit to Italy for Manchester Metropolis as they succumbed to a 2-0 away defeat to Juventus, that means that the membership will nearly actually should win each of their remaining two matches to make sure a play-off place for the last-16 at a really minimal.
At that’s no simple activity both, with Manchester Metropolis travelling to face Paris Saint-Germain away from dwelling this week, earlier than welcoming Membership Brugge to the Etihad Stadium on the ultimate matchday subsequent week.
Forward of the assembly between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester Metropolis, UEFA have now introduced the record of match officers to supervise proceedings on the Parc des Princes!
Match Referee
UEFA have confirmed this week that widely-respected Polish referee, Szymon Marciniak will oversee proceedings from the centre of the Parc des Princes pitch between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester Metropolis.
The 44-year-old official will probably be taking cost of his fourth league phasing match within the Champions League up to now this season, having already overseen a PSG contest as soon as as they had been overwhelmed 1-2 at dwelling by Atletico Madrid in early November.
In complete, there have been 4 earlier Manchester Metropolis matches which were officiated by Marciniak, together with two finals which have performed a major position within the constantly-developing historical past of Pep Guardiola’s tenure on the Etihad Stadium.
Whereas the Polish referee took cost of the 4-0 win over Fluminense within the FIFA Membership World Cup remaining of 2023, he most notably led proceedings in Istanbul as a single Rodri purpose secured Manchester Metropolis their first-ever UEFA Champions League crown with a 1-0 win over Inter.
Along with these two matches, the 4-0 win over Actual Madrid within the UEFA Champions League semi-final second-leg over Actual Madrid was additionally overseen by Marciniak in 2023, plus a 0-4 away win over Feyenoord in 2017.
Assistant Referees
Accompanying Szymon Marciniak on the Parc des Princes on Wednesday night time will probably be fellow Polish officers, Tomasz Listkiewicz and Adam Kupsik – who’ve been appointed into the roles of assistant referees.
Video Assistant Referees
Overseeing the competition between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester Metropolis from the position of VAR will probably be Video Assistant Referee, Tomasz Kwiatkowski of Poland, accompanied by Portugal’s Tiago Martins as Assistant Video Assistant Referee.
Fourth Official
Lastly, UEFA have confirmed that Damian Kos will full an all-Polish group of match officers on the Parc des Princes this week as he steps into the place of Fourth Official.