PSV 3 - 2 Hamburger SV
Europa League 2009 - 2010 round of 32 · 2010-02-25 Referee: Mike Dean

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Dean

The best English referee at this moment had an outstanding match. He gave eleven yellows, two reds and all of that was right, there was also as penalty for HSV. It was a nervous match and Dean kept calm as was possible, so he showed just two cautions in the first half. In the second, maybe because of the rain, the match escalated with many bad challenges and unsportive behaviour. After one of that Dean showed yellow for PSV sider Dzsudzsak who slightly pushed Dean who immediately showed red. I hope that Cofi Codija wached this. Dean with this performance deserved promotion to the Elite group.

Match

PSV player Dzsudzsak showed how he became a loser after being a hero. He scored the second goal and with that result PSV would have gone to the next round, but because his stupid move PSV lost a player, then Salcido caused an unnecessary penalty and PSV was out. The pace of the match and quality was much better then matches in the CL in this round.

assistants and assistants

As a referee I know how important is to have quality assistants but why do we have these additional assistants? They are just useless, they look funny with those sticks but never make important decisions and in the future UEFA will need a small airplane for all these referees who are there to help. Dean didn't need this kind of help in this match, but it's much simpler to have some sort of video technology to help instead of penguin referees.

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