His assistants will be Alexei Lunev from Novosibirsk and Alexei Stipidi from Krasnodar. The Fourth official is Muscovite Timur Arslanbekov, The match inspector is Mikhail Hodyrev, also from Moscow. 

Under Egorov, the blue-white-sky blues have achieved 11 wins, five draws and just three defeats suffered. The last time Lucescu's team meet with him as a referee was in November last year at the Petrovsky when Zenit beat Krylia Sovietov 3-1. 

The match against CSKA Moscow, known as "El Clasikov," will take place on Saturday, 4 March and will begin at 16:30 St. Petersburg time.