WorldReferee.com - Damir Skomina matches

Date

2012-02-23

Match

Manchester United

Ajax

Result

1 - 2

Yellow

2 - 1

Red

0 - 0

Penalty

0 - 0

this match

overall

Our marks

7.3

7.4

Your marks

8.3

7.6

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Reporter's marks

Control: Not in doubt

Calls: Pretty good, but some things I disagree with

Neutrality:

Style: Adapted well to the match

Other reports for this match (2)

1) report by rokyrr

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Damir Skomina matches

'13-05-01 Barcelona - Bayern Munich (0 - 3)'13-03-05 Dortmund - Shakhtar (3 - 0)'12-11-21 Anderlecht - AC Milan (1 - 3)'12-10-23 Shakhtar - Chelsea F.C. (2 - 1)'12-10-16 Italy - Denmark (3 - 1)'12-09-18 Real Madrid - Manchester City (3 - 2)'12-08-31 Chelsea F.C. - Atlético de Madrid (1 - 4)'12-06-22 Germany - Greece (4 - 2)'12-06-15 Sweden - England (2 - 3)'12-06-09 Netherlands - Denmark (0 - 1)'12-04-26 Valencia - Atlético de Madrid (0 - 1)'12-04-04 Chelsea F.C. - Benfica (1 - 0)'12-03-06 Arsenal - AC Milan (3 - 0)• '12-02-23 Manchester United - Ajax (1 - 2)'11-11-22 Napoli - Manchester City (2 - 1)'11-10-19 Marseille - Arsenal (0 - 1)'11-09-14 Benfica - Manchester United (1 - 1)'11-09-02 Hungary - Sweden (2 - 1)'11-08-17 OB - Villarreal (1 - 0)'11-06-04 England - Switzerland (2 - 2)'11-04-13 Schalke 04 - Internazionale (2 - 1)'11-03-16 Real Madrid - Lyon (3 - 0)'10-11-23 Auxerre - AC Milan (0 - 2)'10-10-20 Internazionale - Tottenham Hotspur (4 - 3)'10-10-12 Croatia - Norway (2 - 1)'10-09-15 Real Madrid - Ajax (2 - 0)'10-09-07 Turkey - Belgium (3 - 2)'10-08-25 Auxerre - Zenit (2 - 0)'10-08-11 Ukraine - Netherlands (1 - 1)'10-04-01 Fulham - Wolfsburg (2 - 1)'10-03-18 Marseille - Benfica (1 - 2)'10-03-03 Greece - Senegal (0 - 2)'10-02-18 Panathinaikos - AS Roma (3 - 2)'09-12-09 Liverpool - Fiorentina (1 - 2)'09-11-03 APOEL - Porto (0 - 1)'09-10-21 Zurich - Marseille (0 - 1)'09-10-10 Ukraine - England (1 - 0)'09-09-15 Maccabi Haifa - Bayern Munich (0 - 3)'09-09-05 Netherlands - Japan (3 - 0)'09-08-27 AEK - Vaslui (3 - 0)'09-08-05 Debrecen - Levadia (1 - 0)'09-04-01 Denmark - Albania (3 - 0)'09-02-26 Valencia - Dynamo Kyiv (2 - 1)'08-11-27 Sampdoria - VfB Stuttgart (1 - 1)'08-10-22 PSV - Marseille (2 - 0)'08-10-02 Zurich - AC Milan (0 - 1)'08-09-10 Russia - Wales (2 - 1)'08-08-16 Brazil OT - Cameroon OT (2 - 0)'08-08-07 Honduras OT - Italy OT (0 - 3)'08-02-21 Leverkusen - Galatasaray (5 - 1)'07-12-06 Anderlecht - Tottenham Hotspur (1 - 1)'07-11-08 Mlada Boleslav - Villarreal (1 - 2)'07-10-26 Ukraine u19 - Azerbaijan u19 (3 - 0)'07-09-19 Lens - Kobenhavn (1 - 1)'07-08-22 Scotland - Lithuania (3 - 1)'07-08-15 Salzburg - Shakhtar (1 - 0)'07-06-23 Netherlands u21 - Serbia u21 (4 - 1)'07-06-14 England u21 - Italy u21 (2 - 2)'07-06-10 Netherlands u21 - Israel u21 (1 - 0)'07-03-24 Faroe Islands - Ukraine (0 - 2)'07-02-15 Braga - Parma (1 - 0)'07-02-07 France - Argentina (0 - 1)'06-10-19 Osasuna - Heerenveen (0 - 0)'06-10-07 Armenia - Finland (0 - 0)'06-09-14 Legia Warszawa - Austria Wien (1 - 1)'06-09-06 Turkey u21 - Israel u21 (0 - 0)'06-08-02 Rabotnicki - Debrecen (4 - 1)'05-10-22 Latvia u19 - Armenia u19 (0 - 0)'05-09-07 Liechtenstein - Luxembourg (3 - 0)'05-07-20 Greece u19 - Germany u19 (0 - 3)'05-07-18 Norway u19 - Armenia u19 (2 - 0)'05-07-12 Dinamo Minsk - Anorthosis (1 - 1)'05-06-08 Iceland - Malta (4 - 1)'05-02-08 Wales u21 - Germany u21 (0 - 4)'04-09-03 Albania u21 - Greece u21 (1 - 1)'04-07-13 Pobeda - Pyunik (1 - 3)'04-04-28 Austria - Luxembourg (4 - 1)'03-10-15 Mallorca - APOEL (4 - 2)'03-05-14 Portugal u17 - England u17 (2 - 2)'03-05-11 Italy u17 - Israel u17 (4 - 0)'03-05-07 Portugal u17 - Denmark u17 (3 - 2)

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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE 2011 - 2012 round of 32:
Manchester United - Ajax, 1 - 2. Old Trafford, Manchester, England, 2012-02-23

There were a lot of young faces on show in this match - Manchester United started with an average age of just 24. This may go some way to explaining how they were very nearly knocked out by Ajax. In amongst the action, the youthful Slovenian referee Damir Skomina was calm, composed and (nearly always) correct.

Some discussion points
There were no really big decisions for Skomina to make in this match. I agreed with most of his free kicks and advantages, the three yellow cards were all merited and he worked well with the assistants. However, there are a couple of things which I think he got wrong. Firstly, Rafael should have been cautioned for the dive he performed to try and win a penalty early in the first half. Next, I felt there was a very obvious deliberate handball in the build up to Ajax's fist goal. Skomina seemed to be in an ideal position to spot this, but for some reason did not award a free kick to United. And finally, there should have been more than two minutes at the end. Skomina obviously thought United were wasting time because he cautioned Evans, and there were five substitutions during the half, so I would have expected at least three but probably four minutes stoppage time.

From our reporter: padre