MADRID, 2 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The French collegiate Clément Turpin will be in charge of arbitrating on Tuesday the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League between Real Madrid and Atlético de Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu (9:00 p.m.), UEFA has confirmed this Sunday.
The 42 -year -old Trencilla, will direct a meeting in the maximum continental competition of the Real Madrid players, who do not know the defeat with him, while the rojiblanco team will cross for the seventh time with the French.
The white box accumulates seven victories and a single draw, the one of the semifinals of the 2023-24 season against the Bayern Munich (2-2), with Turpin in the field. On the last time the faces were seen, this same course, Real Madrid won Manchester City (2-3) in the first leg of the playoff ‘before the eighth.
They also won in the final of the ‘Champions’ of 2022 against Liverpool (0-1) and in the first leg of the quarterfinals 2021-22 against Chelsea (1-3), as well as in the groups of groups before the Ludogorets (4-0), in the 2014-15 campaign; before Rome (0-2), in 2018-19; before Inter (3-2), in 2020-21; and before Naples (2-3), in 2023-24.
For their part, those of Diego Pablo Simeone have a balance of two wins, three draws and a defeat with Turpin, who last led a mattress party in 2022 during the group stage, in an encounter against Bayer Leverkusen (2-2).
The victories arrived before the Porto (1-3) in the group stage 2021-22 and before the vitória of Guimaraes of the ‘playoff’ of access to the Europa League 2011-12; The draws before the Leverkusen, before the Bayern of Munich (1-1) in the group stage 2020-21 and before the arsenal in the first leg of the semifinals of the 2017-18 Europa League; and the defeat, before the Bayern (1-0) in the group stage of the ‘Champions’ 2016-17.