He will be assisted by Roman Usachev from Rostov-on-Don and Alexey Lunev from Novosibirsk, the fourth official will be Evgeny Kukulyak from Kaluga and VAR will be operated by Alexei Sukhoi and Alexander Bogdanov.

Karasev's previous 36 games with Zenit, have seen us  get 22 wins, nine draws and five defeats. His last Zenit match was the 2-2 away draw with Akhmat in November. 

The match against Spartak Moscow will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Wednesday 16 December at 8pm St. Petersburg time/5pm GMT.