{"id":2261,"date":"2026-04-14T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:07:03","slug":"psg-who-is-maurizio-mariani-the-referee-of-the-champions-league-quarter-final-second-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"PSG: Who is Maurizio Mariani, the referee of the Champions League quarter-final second leg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div layout=\"desktop\">\n<p>Paris Saint-Germain did part of the job by winning the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Liverpool last week (2-0). From now on, Luis Enrique&#8217;s men will try to validate their ticket for the semi-finals of the competition on Tuesday evening. For this summit match, a referee they have already met will be blowing the whistle. UEFA has confirmed that Maurizio Mariani will lead the match.<\/p>\n<h2>A bad memory for the Parisians this season<\/h2>\n<p>In the single group stage, the 44-year-old Italian was already on the whistle this season during a PSG match, against Bayern Munich (1-2), this season. Even if he had logically expelled Luis Diaz for his gross foul on Achraf Hakimi, the reigning European champions had lost. This experienced referee has officiated 17 matches in C1, including 6 this season.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udea8 Maurizio Mariani \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 will be on the whistle for Liverpool\/PSG! His record with PSG:- PSG\/Aston Villa 3-1 24\/25 \u2705- PSG\/Bayern Munich 1-2 25\/26 \u274cHis record with Liverpool:- Liverpool\/Atletico 3-2 25\/26 \u2705 pic.twitter.com\/8JunszzirW\u2014 MEGA PSG \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf8 (@MegaPSG_) April 12, 2026<\/p>\n<h2>Good news for the Reds<\/h2>\n<p>Liverpool has better memories of Maurizio Mariano&#8217;s last match on the whistle because it was a victory for the Reds against Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid (3-2), also in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Maurizio Mariani made headlines when he refereed the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League between Luis Enrique&#8217;s men and Aston Villa (won 3-1). But especially during Monaco-Benfica, in the play-offs last season, where he showed a red card to Moatasem Al-Musrati because he had requested a yellow card for his rival. Mr Mariani will be one of the referees at the World Cup this summer, although he is controversial in his country, where he was demoted to Serie B a weekend after a penalty awarded generously to Napoli against Inter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain did part of the job by winning the Champions League quarter-final first leg against Liverpool last week (2-0). From now on, Luis Enrique&#8217;s men will try to validate their ticket for the semi-finals of the competition on Tuesday evening. For this summit match, a referee they have already met will be blowing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updatelive.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}