OFFICIAL: The referee of Napoli-FC Barcelona, an unknown case for the Catalans

This Monday the UEFA gave to know the referee's designation of the meeting of the next Wednesday in which the FC Barcelona will visit to the Naples (21:00 hours). The duel, that will mark the return of the Barcelona team to the maximum continental competition after several months, will play in the Stadium Diego Armando Maradona and will have to the German Felix Zawyer like the main referee of the party.

The real-estate agent of 42 years of age, international from the 2012, already has directed this season three meetings in the maximum European competition: the defeat of the Seville in Lens (2-1), the tie of the Athletic of Madrid in Glasgow in front of the Celtic (2-2), and the victory of the Arsenal in front of the PSV Eindhoven (4-0). With this balance can appreciate that the visitors have not been able to carry the triumph with Zawyer on the field, and so alone could achieve a tie.

The Barça will find with a referee almost stranger for them

Regarding the history of the Barça with the German referee, will be the second time that arbitrate a party of the Barcelona team in the continental tournament, after what went a triumph by 2-4 against the Tottenham on 3 October of the 2018, a result that in this opportunity would be very important thinking in the quarter-finals of the competition. Regarding the Naples there are three precedents, totalizando a victory, a tie and a defeat.

In this occasion will be helped in bands by Stefan Lupp and Robert Kempter, and in the room VAR by Bastian Dankert; all they also German. It is worthwhile to highlight equally that Zawyer has the peculiarity to be a referee that works in the maximum level in spite of having been condemned by amaños of parties in the past. It was 2005, when it received a sanction of six months for being involved in a scandal of alter of parties in the Bundesliga 2.