WorldReferee.com - Nicola Rizzoli matches

Date

2008-11-04

Match

Marseille

PSV

Result

3 - 0

Yellow

0 - 2

Red

0 - 0

Penalty

0 - 0

this match

overall

Our marks

7.3

7.5

Your marks

7.5

7.9

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Reporter's marks

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Calls:

Neutrality:

Style:

Other reports for this match (1)

1) report by Knut Olsen

Control: Good

Calls: I agree Ado should have had a second yellow, but the rest OK

Neutrality: a little on the PSV side

Style: Good

He is a good ref. In a potential difficult game, a dangerous wet field, Rizzoli did well.

Nicola Rizzoli matches

'13-05-25 Dortmund - Bayern Munich ( - )'13-03-13 Malaga - Porto (2 - 0)'12-12-05 Braga - Galatasaray (1 - 2)'12-11-14 Russia - USA (2 - 2)'12-11-06 Schalke 04 - Arsenal (2 - 2)'12-10-12 Ireland - Germany (1 - 6)'12-09-19 Celtic - Benfica (0 - 0)'12-08-30 Twente - Bursaspor (4 - 1)'12-06-23 Spain - France (2 - 0)'12-06-17 Portugal - Netherlands (2 - 1)'12-06-11 France - England (1 - 1)'12-04-05 Athletic Bilbao - Schalke 04 (2 - 2)'12-02-22 Basel - Bayern Munich (1 - 0)'11-12-14 Kashiwa Reysol - Santos FC (1 - 3)'11-12-08 Kashiwa Reysol - Auckland City FC (2 - 0)'11-11-23 Marseille - Olympiakos (0 - 1)'11-11-15 Montenegro - Czech Republic (0 - 1)'11-11-02 Lyon - Real Madrid (0 - 2)'11-10-11 Denmark - Portugal (2 - 1)'11-09-28 Valencia - Chelsea F.C. (1 - 1)'11-08-23 Malmö - Dinamo Zagreb (2 - 0)'11-06-03 Belgium - Turkey (1 - 1)'11-04-13 Tottenham Hotspur - Real Madrid (0 - 1)'11-02-16 Arsenal - Barcelona (2 - 1)'10-11-24 Schalke 04 - Lyon (3 - 0)'10-10-20 Glasgow Rangers - Valencia (1 - 1)'10-09-14 Barcelona - Panathinaikos (5 - 1)'10-09-07 Switzerland - England (1 - 3)'10-08-24 Sevilla FC - Braga (3 - 4)'10-06-03 Germany - Bosnia-Herzegovina (3 - 1)'10-05-12 Atlético de Madrid - Fulham (2 - 1)'10-04-07 Manchester United - Bayern Munich (3 - 2)'10-03-18 Liverpool - Lille OSC (3 - 0)'10-03-10 Real Madrid - Lyon (1 - 1)'10-03-03 Switzerland - Uruguay (1 - 3)'09-12-06 AS Roma - Lazio (1 - 0)'09-11-25 CSKA Moskva - Wolfsburg (2 - 1)'09-11-04 Standard - Olympiakos (2 - 0)'09-10-10 Estonia - Bosnia-Herzegovina (0 - 2)'09-09-30 Porto - Atlético de Madrid (2 - 0)'09-09-15 Besiktas - Manchester United (0 - 1)'09-09-05 Hungary - Sweden (1 - 2)'09-08-25 Anderlecht - Lyon (1 - 3)'09-08-12 Netherlands - England (2 - 2)'09-07-29 Celtic - Dinamo Moskva (1 - 0)'09-04-16 Manchester City - Hamburger SV (2 - 1)'09-03-12 CSKA Moskva - Shakhtar (1 - 0)'08-12-03 Hertha BSC - Galatasaray (0 - 1)• '08-11-04 Marseille - PSV (3 - 0)'08-10-10 Norway u19 - Slovenia u19 (4 - 2)'08-10-01 Sporting - Basel (2 - 0)'08-09-06 Ukraine - Belarus (1 - 0)'08-07-19 Rennes - Tavriya (1 - 0)'08-02-13 Glasgow Rangers - Panathinaikos (0 - 0)'07-12-06 AaB - Getafe (1 - 2)'07-10-25 Basel - Rennes (1 - 0)'07-10-17 Netherlands - Slovenia (2 - 0)'07-10-04 Rapid Wien - Anderlecht (0 - 1)'07-09-12 Germany - Romania (3 - 1)'07-08-30 Galatasaray - Slaven (2 - 1)'07-08-07 Beitar Jerusalem - Kobenhavn (1 - 1)'07-07-21 Gloria 1922 Bistrita - Atlético de Madrid (2 - 1)'07-06-02 Switzerland u19 - Serbia u19 (0 - 1)'07-05-31 Romania u19 - Switzerland u19 (4 - 2)

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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 2008-2009 group stage:
Marseille - PSV, 3 - 0. Vélodrome, Marseille, France, 2008-11-04

The new kid on the block Nicola Rizzoli got dropped into the Champions League group stage after only one year's apprenticeship doing qualifiers and youth stuff. UEFA must have plans with this young man.

cards
The old school of Italian refereeing: Rizzoli showed a card in the 2nd minute. A bad foul is a bad foul and none of this lets-see-what-kind-of-match-this-is-going-to-be. That was good. But then, he could (and perhaps should) have shown another card a minute later to Eric Addo, a player who had no reason for taking part in this match, who had no clue what to do, who could not keep up with his opponents. It seemed Rizzoli didn't want to show a second card that early because of the lets-see-what-kind-of-match-this-is-going-to-be rule.

wet
For the Italian referee there were two matches: the first 20 minutes the field was very wet and slidings often turned into bad fouls, not always intentionally. However, after a while most of the field got better and then hardly a (bad) foul was committed.

match
Eric Addo, who did get booked in the second half, is symbolic for the whole team of PSV: what were they doing in the Champions League? This is where the big guys rule.

From our reporter: Ray Miller-Short