MADRID, 21 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Frenchman Clément Turpin will be in charge of refereeing this Thursday the second leg of the Europa League Playoff between Manchester United and FC Barcelona at Old Trafford (9:00 p.m.), while the Italian Daniele Orsato will do the same at the match of the same day between PSV Eindhoven and Sevilla at the Philips Stadion (9:00 p.m.).
Turpin, 40, last led a game for the Catalans last season, in the Champions League group stage win against Dynamo Kiev (1-0).
In addition, he met the culé team on two other occasions: in the 2019-20 ‘Champions’ group stage win against Borussia Dortmund (3-1) and in the painful defeat of the quarterfinal second leg of the season 2017-18 against Roma, where those then led by Ernesto Valverde suffered the comeback of the tie against the Italians at the Olímpico (3-0).
For his part, Orsato, 47, will be in charge of delivering justice in the match to be played by the Nervionense team, whom he refereed for the last time in the Europa League quarterfinal victory, with an innovative format in Duisburg by the coronavirus pandemic, against Wolverhampton (0-1).
Previously, the transalpine referee was present in Sevilla’s eliminations in the Champions League against Leicester (2-0), in the round of 16 second leg of 2017, and against Bayern Munich (1-2), in the first leg of the quarterfinals. 2018. In 2015, he led the victory of the Andalusians in the first leg of the 2014-15 Europa League round of 16 against Villarreal (1-3).