This Wednesday, the Manchester United and the FC Barcelona will see the faces in Old Trafford in the party of gone of the quarter-finals of the present edition of the Champions League. The Barcelona, favourites on the paper, will treat to put all the meat in the asador to take out a positive result of face to the turn, that will take place in the Camp Nou a week afterwards.

Gianluca Rocchi, referee of 45 years, will be the attendant to direct the party of Old Trafford. The Italian is of grato memory for the FC Barcelona, since the Barcelona team has won the four parties in which he has been the main referee.

In concrete, the four parties in which Rocchi has arbitrated to the FC Barcelona in the Champions League have been a 0-3 to the Panathinaikos in the phase of groups of the season 2010-11, a 2-1 to the Celtic in the liguilla 2012-13, a 0-4 to the APOEL Nikosea in the first phase of the 2014-15 and a 1-0 to the Manchester City in the turn of the eighth of final of 2014-15.

Also it is necessary to say that Rocchi was protagonist of the scandalous arbitration of the Real Madrid-Paris Saint-Germain of the eighth of final of the past edition of the Champions League. In this party, played in Santiago Bernabéu, the Italian signalled a penalti non-existent on Kroos of Celso and no pitó one of Sergio Bouquets by hands.

They are the precedents of this referee with FC Barcelona and Real Madrid. In the others duels of quarter-finals, were assigned Mateu Lahoz for the Liverpool-Carry (2-0) and Björn Kuipers for the Tottenham Hotspur-Manchester City (1-0).

The Spanish Of the Big Hill was designated for the Ajax of Ámsterdam-Juventus of Turín that, of the same way that the Manchester United-FC Barcelona, will take place the Wednesday to the 21:00 hours.

The parties of Rocchi with the Barça

  • 0-3 to the Panathinaikos (phase of groups of the season 2010-11)
  • 2-1 to the Celtic (phase of groups of the season 2012-13)
  • 0-4 to the APOEL Nikosea (phase of groups of the season 2014-15)
  • 1-0 to the Manchester City (turn of the eighth of final of 2014-15)