Francois Letexier has been appointed to supervise Thursday’s Europa League match between Atalanta and Liverpool on the Gewiss Stadium in Bergamo.
UEFA has confirmed that French referee Letexier will officiate the Europa League quarter-final second leg between Atalanta and Liverpool on Thursday.
Letexier’s compatriots Cyril Mugnier and Mehdi Rahmouni would be the assistants. Pierre Gaillouste would be the fourth official, and Jerome Brisard and Willy Delajod will oversee VAR.
Regardless of being nonetheless fairly younger, the 34-year-old referee already has respectable worldwide expertise, having taken cost of 13 Champions League matches in his profession, together with two involving Serie A golf equipment.
This previous October, he was the referee in Inter‘s 2-1 victory over RB Salzburg at San Siro, and extra lately, he was appointed for Lazio‘s 1-0 win over Bayern Munich within the first leg of the Spherical of 16.
His debut within the Champions League group stage got here in December 2020, when he oversaw Liverpool’s 1-1 draw in opposition to FC Midtjylland. That was the one Liverpool recreation Letexier had refereed to date in his profession.
He additionally met Atalanta as soon as in La Dea’s 1-0 victory in opposition to Bayer Leverkusen within the Europa League Spherical of 16 second leg final season.