It’s Francesco Fourneau of Roma 1 the referee designated for Ternana’s last home match on Sunday against Catanzaro at 3:00 pm. His assistants assisted him Palermo – Ciprianithe 4th Officer Cancithe VAR Maggioni and the AVAR Loaf.
For the Roman referee it is the 20th direction of the season, the tenth in Serie B this year. For the red-greens it will be the fifth meeting with Forneau with which they have never won: only one draw and three defeats, the last one 1-2 in the 1st round of the Italian Cup against Albinoleffe on 22 August 2020.
Fifth match also for Catanzaro in their first ever Serie B match with the 39-year-old Roman: a negative result also for the Giallorossi who have only achieved one victory, 2-1, on 19 October 2014 against Ischia. From there three defeats out of three, the last on 23 April 2017 away against Vibonese 2-1.
With a Belgian father and an Italian mother, he began refereeing in 2006 and made his Serie A debut on 30 December 2017 in Benevento-Chievo 1-0. 41 appearances in the top flight without any big matches despite him having refereed Milan, Inter, Juve and Napoli several times. The last match refereed in Serie A dates back to 26 April between Frosinone and Salernitana which ended 3-0 for the Ciociari. He returns to referee a Serie B match after Pisa-Palermo 4-3 on April 1st.
In the 90th season there were yellow cards in 19 direct matches, 6 double yellow cards and 3 direct red cards, data which testifies to how Fourneau don’t hesitate to take them out. 5 penalty kicks have been called this year, 2 of which in Serie B.
These numbers follow those in his career, with 228 direct matches and 951 yellows drawn, 33 double yellow cards and 38 direct reds. 81 penalties were awarded with an average of almost one every three matches.
