Shortly after the end of Yom Kippur, Maccabi Haifa will go up for another European night: on Wednesday (10:00 p.m., live broadcast on 5SPORT) the national champions will be hosted in Turin, where they will meet Juventus as part of the third round of the Champions League. The Greens will arrive after the happy victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv, and hope to cause a surprise – and get the first points for an Israeli team in the Champions in 11 years.
Today (Monday) it was determined who will be the referee of the game. The man chosen to manage the mission will be the 34-year-old Swiss Sandro Scharer. Charer, young in terms of the jurisdiction, will be assisted by referees Stefan de Almeida and Kim Zogai, with Alan Bairy as the fourth official. Scharer refereed in the first round of Celtic’s game against Real Madrid (0:3 to Real at the end), and in the previous round the victory of Inter against the Czech Viktoria Plzen (0:2 to Inter) – a game that was followed by criticism.
In “Corriere dello Sport”, after the game, it was claimed that Scharer was “too forgiving” towards the Czech team’s fouls on the Inter players, this despite the fact that he sent off Pavel Boche, a Plzen player, in the 61st minute – but this happened after The intervention of the VAR system, even though it was a particularly serious offense according to them. At first he only got a yellow card.
Also, the Italian newspaper claimed, Nicolò Barella and Denzel Dumfries from Inter escaped yellow cards after serious fouls. Should Haifa prepare for a tough game? We will wait and see.