A referee with a big name and important matches to his credit was chosen by KED for the derby of the 26th matchday between AEK and Olympic. The reason for the Italian Maurizio Mariani, who will be assisted by his compatriots Daniele Bidoni and Alberto Tegoni. The VAR will be the also Italian Eugenio Abbatista with assistant Konstantinos Psaris, while the fourth will be Vangelis Manouchos.
The 41-year-old referee is directing a game in Greece for the first time. On 8/8/2019 he was at Molde-Aris 3-0 for the third qualifying round of the Europa League. This year he has directed three matches for the Champions League groups, Real-Leipzig 2-0, Sevilla-Dormund 1-4 and Leverkusen-Club Brugge 0-0. He was also in Barcelona-Manchester United 2-2 for the Europa League playoffs. At the same time, he has blown the whistle in nine Serie A matches this year, most notably Milan-Napoli 1-2, Torino-Juventus 1-2 and Milan-Atalanda 2-0.
In the Atromitos-Panathinaikos Angelos Evangelou was appointed referee with Yannis Papadopoulos in VAR, at Volos-PAOK Dimitris Maloutas with Giorgos Tzovaras in VAR and in Aris-PAS Ioannina Konstantinos Katikos with Petros Tsagarakis in VAR.
Vassilis Fotias will be the referee at Ionian-Asteras Tripoli (VAR Spyros Zabalas), Tasos Sidiropoulos at Levadeakos-OFI (VAR Stefanos Koumbarakis) and Stathis Gortsilas at Panaitolikos-Lamia (VAR Aristotle Diamantopoulos).
Source: Sport Fm
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