He will be assisted by fellow Italians Lorenzo Manganelli and Alessandro Giallatini, with the fourth official being Daniele Doveri.

VAR will be operated by Marco Guida and Ciro Carbone also from Italy.

We have had 12 matches previously with Italian referees and have won five, drawn three and lost four of those games. Daniele Orsato has twice taken charge of Zenit games, in 2018 he was the ref for our 1-1 home draw with RB Leipzig and in 2013 saw our 2-0 away defeat to Basel.

The match with Lyon will be held at the Gazprom Arena on Wednesday 27 November at 20:55 St. Petersburg time. Tickets for the game are available at tickets.fc-zenit.ru.