AZ 2 - 2 Austria Wien
Europa League 2011 - 2012 group stage · 2011-10-20 Referee: Alexandru Dan Tudor

the Tudor team

but

I don't think I ever saw this before: a referee standing in the way three times and at important moments too. He has to work on that.

and

Lyrics from some 90s rap song came to mind during the match:
This is how it should be done
My style is identical to none

When Austria players started stalling, Tudor actually did something about it. He allowed free kicks while an opponent was too close to the ball on purpose and he had one more fantastic little trick: Barazite, pretending he didn't know he was going to be substituted, was sent away over the nearest line. Off he went, no slow motion walking all the way to the dug out, but straight over the goal line.
I don't think I ever saw that before either.

team

As we did see before: Dan Tudor and his assistants are a team. He relies on his assistants on the touch line. But at least once you could see his doubts about a call. A cal he couldn't or didn't want to overrule.

match

Meagre. Az were the better team and playing at home, still it took them 80 minutes to finally do something about the 0-2.

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