UEFA appoints Danny Makkelie for Nottingham Forest-FC Porto | OneFootball

UEFA announced, on Tuesday morning, through its official channels, that Danny Makkelie has been chosen as the referee for the second leg of the Europa League quarter-final tie between Nottingham Forest and FC Porto.

The Dutch official will be joined by an all-Netherlands refereeing team, with Hessel Steegstra and Jan de Vries as assistant referees, as well as Allard Lindhout as fourth official, for a match scheduled to kick off at 20:00 (mainland Portugal time) next Thursday at the City Ground. Croatia’s Ivan Bebek will be in charge of VAR, with Germany’s Soren Storks as assistant.

In the first meeting, played at the Estádio do Dragão, the match ended in a 1-1 draw. Francesco Farioli’s side started better, thanks to a goal from William Gomes in the 11th minute, but the response came almost immediately through Martim Fernandes, who scored a bizarre own goal.

Danny Makkelie is, in fact, a referee who brings back bad memories for Portuguese football, since in nine matches involving Portuguese clubs, there has not been a single win. Two of those games involved FC Porto, with defeats to AS Roma (2-1) and Liverpool (1-4) in 2019.

The 43-year-old official has also taken charge of three Sporting matches, with one draw and two defeats, two Benfica matches, both lost, one Sporting Braga match, also a defeat, and another involving Marítimo, which ended in a draw. Only the national team has managed to avoid that trend, having recorded three wins, two draws and one defeat in six matches under his officiating.

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