Italian referee Roberto Rosetti will take charge of Liverpool's Champions League quarter-final 2nd leg clash against PSV Eindhoven at Anfield.

This will be the second time this season he has been in charge of a Liverpool game, back in August he was in Kiev for the 2nd leg of the qualifying game against Maccabi Haifa. He has yet to referee PSV in Europe.

When Liverpool defeated PSV Eindhoven 2-0 in the group stages back in November, that game was also refereed by an Italian - Domenico Messina.

This will be his sixth Champions League game of the season, seven if you count the qualifier.

He was in the final ballot for World Cup referees in Germany, but failed to make the cut. However he was suddenly recalled after Greek referee Kyros Vassaras was sent home after one of his team failed the fitness test. This made Roberto the second Italian referee in the tournament but he became the only one after Massimo De Santis was sent home after he was implicated in the recent footballing scandal in that country.

Rosetti went on to referee 4 games in the tournament including Argentina's 6-0 demolition of Serbia and France's 3-1 win over Spain in the knock-out stage. In those four games he cautioned 16 players and sent-off former Chelsea striker Mateja Kezman. At over 6ft he was the tallest referee in Germany and had one of the lowest ratios of cards per game in the tournament.

In October last year he was in Croatia as they beat England 2-0 in a EURO 2008 qualifying match.

Born on September 18th 1967 in Turin, he is a hospital manager back in his homeland and can speak French and English. He lists tennis, movies and books as his main interests.
He has been on the FIFA list since 2002 and his first International match was on 11th January that year was between Tunisia and Cameroon.

His assistants will be Cristiano Copelli and Alessandro Stagnoli with Paolo Tagliavento as the fourth official.

Some memorable matches involving Italian referees and Liverpool.

12th Sept 1972 (C. Lo Bello) - Kevin Keegan and Emlyn Hughes scored to give us a 2-0 home win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the first round of the UEFA Cup.

10th Dec 1975 (C. Gussoni) - Jimmy Case scores all three goals as we beat Slask Wroclaw in the UEFA Cup.

16th Sept 1997 (G. Cesari) - Michael Owen scores his first European goal in a 2-2 draw at Celtic in the UEFA Cup.

26th Sept 2001 (P. Collina) - A single Jari Litmanen goal is enough to beat Dinamo Kiev at Anfield in the Champions League.

6th Nov 2003 (S. Farina) - Djimi Traore scores a brilliant goal in a 1-1 draw in Bucharest against Steaua in the UEFA Cup.

3rd March 2006 (M.de Santis) - Benfica end Liverpool's reign as European Champions with a 2-0 win at Anfield.

22nd November 2006 (D.Messina) - Liverpool claim top spot in Group C with a 2-0 win over PSV Eindhoven.