His assistants will be Valentin Murashov and Denis Bereznov, and the fourth official will be Konstantin Averyanov. VAR will be operated by Alexei Sukho and Dmitry Mosyakin.

Our two previous games with Shadykhanov as the man in the middle have seen us get one win and one draw. The last being the 1-1 away draw with Ufa in  August.

Zenit v Sochi will be held at the Gazprom Arena on Sunday 3 October at 16:30 St. Petersburg time.