The Portuguese Artur Dias will whistle the Sevilla-Manchester United

The Portuguese Artur Días has been appointed to direct the Sevilla-Manchester United match, corresponding to the second leg of the Europa League quarterfinals, which will be played this Thursday at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium.

Artur Dias will be assisted on the wings by his compatriots Paulo Soares, Pedro Ribeiro, the fourth official will be Antonio Nobre and those responsible for the VAR will be Tiago Martins and Luis Godinho. Born 43 years ago in Vila Nova de Gaia and a FIFA referee since 2010, this season he has directed the Red Star-Pyunik, Liverpool-Ajax, Copenhagen-Manchester City and Eintracht Frankfurt-Naples matches in the Champions League, and the Europa League the Ferencvaros Bayer Leverkusen.

He refereed Sevilla for the first time on November 1, 2017 in the Champions League match against Spartak, which the Andalusian team won 2-1, and also in the maximum continental competition on December 2, 2020 against Chelsea, in which the London team won 4-0 at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán.

Meanwhile, United lost to Dias on February 18, 2016 against Danish side Midtjylland in the Europa League, and won in the same competition at Austrian LASK Linz in March 2020 and at Los Cármenes in Granada on April 8. of 2021 in the second leg of the quarterfinals.

Assignments in Europa League

Mateu Lahoz, from the Valencian Committee, has been appointed to direct this Thursday the match between the Belgian Union Saint Gilloise and the German Bayer Leverkusen, corresponding to the second leg of the Europa League quarterfinals. Mateu Lahoz will have Pau Cebrián Devis and Roberto del Palomar as linesmen, with José Luis Munuera Montero as fourth official and Ricardo de Burgos Bengoetxea and Guillermo Cuadra Fernández in VAR.