Referee appointment made for Saturday's Torpedo v Zenit match

43-year-old Sergey Karasev has been appointed for a Zenit game for the 47th time in his career.
Referee appointment made for Saturday's Torpedo v Zenit match
He will be assisted by Aleksey Lunyov and Valeriy Danchenko. The fourth official will be Evgeniy Turbin. VAR will be operated by Vitaliy Meshkov and Nikolai Bogach.

In the previous 46 Zenit games refereed by Sergey Karasev, we've won 29 times, lost six and 11 matches have ended with a draw. The last match with Karasev was on 17 September 2022 when Zenit won 2-0 against Dynamo in Moscow.

The match against Torpedo Moscow will take place at the Luzhniki Stadium on Saturday 12 November and will kick off at 4:30pm St. Petersburg time.