Marco Guida of the Torre Annunziata section will be the referee for Venezia-Cagliari, the crucial salvation clash for the seventeenth day of Serie A scheduled for Sunday at 3 pm at the Penzo. The Campania referee will return to referee seven days after Milan-Genoa, where both teams had complained about the failure to award a penalty. Christian Rossi (La Spezia section) and Marco Trinchieri (Milan) will be the assistants, with Luca Zufferli (Udine) as the fourth official. At the VAR, the name is now well-known to the rossoblù fans: Valerio Marini of the Roma 1 section , contested several times by Cagliari but last time on the monitor during the 2-2 draw at the Ferraris with Genoa, when he signaled a (clear) penalty for the temporary 0-1 and in injury time led to the removal of Nicolas Viola's expulsion (it was a yellow-carded foul).
First time for Guida with Cagliari, with a positive balance: 7 victories (including the closest precedent, on 5 November 2023 with a 2-1 against Genoa), 4 draws (the last on 11 March 2018, 2-2 with Lazio) and as many defeats (the last on 21 January 2018, 1-2 with Milan). But, above all, he was the referee of Bari-Cagliari 0-1 on 11 June 2023, the second leg of the play-off final that earned promotion with Leonardo Pavoletti's stoppage-time goal .
These are the designations for the seventeenth day of Serie A, which will also see a Sardinian referee at San Siro : Antonio Giua from the Olbia section, present yesterday evening at the Aia Cagliari Christmas party (together with his Sardinian colleagues Khaled Bahri and Giuseppe Collu, with Daniele Orsato as guest of honour), will referee Inter-Como.
Verona-Milan Friday 20 December 8.45pm - Livio Marinelli
Torino-Bologna Saturday 21 December at 3pm - Marco Piccinini
Genoa-Napoli Saturday 21 December at 18:00 - Federico La Penna
Lecce-Lazio Saturday 21 December 8.45pm - Gianluca Manganiello
Roma-Parma Sunday 22 December 12.30 - Marco Di Bello
Venice-Cagliari Sunday 22 December at 3pm - Marco Guida
Atalanta-Empoli Sunday 22 December at 18:00 - Ermanno Feliciani
Monza-Juventus Sunday 22 December 8.45pm - Davide Massa
Fiorentina-Udinese Monday 23 December at 18.30 - Matteo Marcenaro
Inter-Como Monday 23 December 8.45pm - Antonio Giua