The FC Barcelona and the Manchester United will be struggling by a pass to the eighth of final of the Europe League after having empatado to two goals by side in the gone contested in the City Condal. All has remained opened for the crash in the 'theatre of the dreams', that surely will define by details. The UEFA already has designated to the referee that will be giving justice in the commitment: the French Clément Turpin.
Although it has been one of referees with better path in the last years, what to his time has cost him distinctions like the one of the best referred European of the past campaign, in which besides it had the honour to direct the final of the Champions between the Real Madrid and the Liverpool and be present in the past Glass of the World, his figure is not of the all pleasant for the Barça and the United, that have suffered bitter defeats when the French has been like main.
In the case of the Barcelona group, Turpin was the referee of the party of turn in front of the Rome in the quarter-finals of the Champions 2017/18. In the gone, the culés imposed by 4-1, leaving practically sentenced his classification to the semifinals. But in a dark night for the barcelonismo, in a stadium that nine years backwards had seen them top like champions of Europe, would take place the catastrophe with the 3-0 in favour of the 'Wolf' and Kostas Manolas like hangman.
But no all his performances have been bad for the culés. In the phase of groups of the season 2019/20, Turpin was the referee of the party in front of the Borussia Dortmund in which the Camp Nou would finish celebrating a local triumph by 3-1. His last presentation with the Barça in field took place in the course 2021/22. In that then, the oncena Catalan would impose by the minimum difference to the Dinamo of Kiev, to the insufficient dessert to advance to the eighth of final.
Turpin, also of bad memories for the United
In the case of the 'network devils', the French neither evokes memories very pleasant, especially after the final of the Europe League in his edition 2020/21, in which the rival would be the Villarreal. After equalising in the statutory time and in the extention, the title would decide from the manchón white. It was there where the 'yellow submarine' would impose by 12-11, with David of Gea like villain when failing his penalti.