It is the Italian Marco Guida who will be on the whistle this Tuesday for the Blues’ match against Poland. The 43-year-old Italian was already on the whistle during the Portugal-Czech Republic match.
For this third day of Euro 2024 group matches, UEFA has revealed the referees who will officiate on German pitches. And it is an Italian who will be on the whistle for the meeting between France and Poland, decisive for the qualification of the men of Didier Deschamps for the round of 16 of the competition.
The Blues have not often had to deal with Marco Guida, who will be on the whistle this Tuesday evening. Only twice. The first in 2021 during qualifiers for the World Cup against Finland (2-0) and more recently in June 2022 in League of Nations against Croatia (1-1). Aged 43, the Italian born in Pompeii has officiated in Serie A since 2010, and has been one of the FIFA referents since 2014. However, he is still a fairly inexperienced referee since he has only 20 European matches, Europa League and Champions League combined, and participates in his first international competition.
Among these European matches, we find in particular the round of 16 first leg this year of Paris Saint-Germain against Real Sociedad, won 2-0 or the victory of Lens against Arsenal 2 to 1. During this Euro he officiated during the match between Portugal and the Czech Republic (2-1).
However, Marco Guida is much criticized in Italy, and bears the weight of a major refereeing error in 2022, during a match between Torino and Inter Milan. He then refused to award a penalty, and was suspended for two weeks by the Italian authorities for this obvious error, which also saw him receive the extremely rare rating of 0/10 in the daily newspaper. Tuttosport.