UEFA has named the refereeing team for the match of the 3rd round of the Europa League group stage between the French Rennes and Dynamo Kyiv, which will be held next Thursday, October 6, in Rennes.
Jose Maria Sanchez - the main referee of the match "Rennes" - "Dynamo"All judges represent Spain. The main referee of the upcoming match will be 39-year-old Jose Maria Sanchez. Raul Cabanero and Jose Naranjo will help him on the lines. The fourth referee is Mario Melero Lopez. VAR Chief Referee - Alejandro Hernandez.
Sanchez is a FIFA referee relatively recently - since 2017. For all the time he has already worked in 35 international fights. The Spaniard will serve the Europa League match for the 18th time in his career.
The last international match in which Sanchez worked was the meeting of the 3rd qualifying round of the current Europa League between the French "Marseille" and the German "Eintracht" from Frankfurt (0: 1), which took place on September 13.
Sanchez is not yet a sufficiently experienced referee in terms of working on the international arena, so it is not surprising that he has never had to work on a match involving Dynamo Kyiv before.
Moreover, the Spaniard has only officiated a match with the participation of the Ukrainian club so far: in the 2020/21 season, Sanchez was the main referee of the second leg of the 1/16 finals of the Europa League Shakhtar — Maccabi (Tel Aviv, Israel) — 1:0 . By the way, in that meeting the only goal was scored from a penalty kick appointed by the Spanish referee.
Sanchez has not yet served matches with the participation of the Ukrainian national teams.
As for the degree of severity of the chief referee of the meeting between Rennes and Dynamo, Sanchez is a rather tough referee: he shows an average of 6 yellow cards per match, and is marked by dismissals in about every third match. The Spaniard appoints a penalty in about every fourth match under his leadership.
José Maria Sanchez Job Statistics at international matches
