Davide Massa
Over the last 10 UEFA Champions League games Davide Massa has officiated, the average is 3.30 cards a match — 16% below the league average of 3.94. That splits 2.8 yellow and 0.5 red a game — a red in 3 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 1.9 to 1.4 a game, a sharper split than the league's 0.4 gap. 5+ cards landed in 20% of those games (2 of 10), from a 16.3% foul-to-booking rate. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Davide Massa turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every UEFA Champions League season on record.
| Measure | Massa | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 3.36 | 3.94 |
| vs league | 0.85× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 17.2% | 17.9% |
| Fouls / match | 19.5 | 22.0 |
| Red cards shown | 8 | — |
| Matches on record | 22 (5 in 25/26) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 UEFA Champions League games Davide Massa took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool v Atlético Madrid9 Sep | 2–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 21 |
| Newcastle v Qarabağ FK24 Feb | 3–2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 14 |
| Benfica v Real Madrid28 Jan | 4–2 | 9 2 red | 7 | 2 | 26 |
| FC Barcelona v Eintracht Frankfurt9 Dec | 2–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 21 |
| Borussia Dortmund v Villarreal25 Nov | 4–0 | 2 1 red | 1 | 1 | 29 |
| Arsenal v Atlético Madrid21 Oct | 4–0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 24 |
| Paris Saint-Germain v Liverpool5 Mar | 0–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| Borussia Dortmund v Sporting CP19 Feb | 0–0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19 |
● a red card in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Davide Massa give per game?
Davide Massa averages 3.36 cards a game across 22 UEFA Champions League matches — 15% below the league average of 3.94. On a Davide Massa appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.85.
Is Davide Massa a strict referee?
No — slightly more lenient than most. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Davide Massa runs at 17.2% against a league average of 17.9%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Davide Massa's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Davide Massa's card rate?
It rests on 22 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.