Referee appointment made for Zenit v Rostov

40-year-old Sergey Karasev from Moscow will take charge of the blue-white-sky blues for the 32nd time in his career.
He will be assisted by Anton Averyanov and Anton Kobzev (both from Moscow) with the fourth official being Ivan Sidenkov. VAR will also be in use.

Karasev has been the man in the middle 31 times in Zenit matches previously, in those games we've scored 19 wins, had 7 draws and suffered 5 defeats.

Karasev's last Zenit match was the 5-0 win over Rubin Kazan on 21 September 2019 at the Gazprom Arena.

The match with Rostov will take place on Saturday 19 October and will begin at 19:00 St. Petersburg time. Tickets for the game are available now!