He will be assisted by Aleksey Vorontsov from Yaroslavl and Dmitriy Cheltsov from Moscow. The fourth official will be Evgeniy Bulanov from Saransk. VAR will be operated by Anatoliy Zhabchenko from Krasnodar and Ilya Eleferenko from Moscow.
In the previous six Zenit games refereed by Evgeniy Kukulyak the team from St. Petersburg won five times, and one match ended in a draw. Our most recent match refereed by Kukulyak was on 25 April when Sergei Semak’s team won 3-1 away against Krasnodar.
The away match against Khimki will take place on Friday 15 July with an 8pm (St. Petersburg time) kick off time.
