Barça have already lost in the Netherlands with Czech referee Pavel Královec

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UEFA has been designated to the public Pavel Královec to referee the game of the fifth day of Group B of the Champions League that this Wednesday (21.00 h./Movistar League of Champions) will play PSV and FC Barcelona in the Philips Stadion of Eindhoven. It will be the second time that the referee, of 41 years and international, since 2005, in recent times in the maximum continental competition. Interestingly, it was also in Holland and Barca lost. In the group stage of the 2013-14 season, the training team of Gerardo Martino was left without the injured Leo Messi in the fief of Ajax (2-1). On that occasion, Královec just expelled Joël Veltman for a punishment on Neymar but not even the maximum penalty transformed by Xavi, which was cut in the 48th minute, served to avoid defeat. The current azulgrana Jasper Cillessen defended the frame of the Amsterdam team.

As for PSV, Královec has only refereed him once. It was at 0-0 at Old Trafford against Manchester United in the 2015-16 Champions League.

Throughout his career, the braid has not been selected for either a World Cup or a Euro Cup. This season has been another Champions League match: Bayern-Ajax (1-1).