The smiling approach in a non-challenging environment

Marseille was in the game for ten minutes...

It was a open match for about ten minutes before Bayern Munich scored the first goal. Marseille then tried hard, but just couldn't get the pass through to the box to the get the equaliser they needed to dream of a miracle which never came. Moen let the game flow, ignored quite a lot of little and medium things and gave a yellow for holding to Alaba which seemed to follow the school: "Okay, we're now in the second half, now it's really time for a yellow to show them that I'm still round." Honestly, this yellow seemed a bit over the top after he ignored much worse things before (arms to the face).

Offsides good, great physical shape and body language

Moen is 33 years old, his team detected most offsides in a correct manner and he semed to run around quite nicely on the pitch. His body language was what I would call the Scandinavian school and what UEFA seems to like these days: Wait and see what happens. For me, in a hot match "go with the flow" seems a risk-taking approach because good refs of the like of the great names need to anticipate what will happen. That's what differs Ovrebros from Froedtfeldts - and I see a lot of "flowing with the game refs" at the moment which are not good enough for the hot peak matches. The Norwegian still needs to prove that he can go the extra way to excel in difficult circumstances, I'm not sure if he will stand this test.