He will be assisted by Vasile Florin Marinescu and Ovidiu Artene with the fourth official being Marius Avram all from Romania. VAR will be operated by Jochem Kamphuis and Kevin Blom from the Netherlands.

The blue-white-sky blues have played three matches with referees from Romania and have won one, drawn one and lost one.

The match against Borussia Dortmund will take place on Tuesday 8 December at 20:55 St. Petersburg time.