Referee appointment made for the CSKA v Zenit match

43-year-old Sergey Karasev has been appointed for a Zenit game for the 48th time in his career. 
Referee appointment made for the CSKA v Zenit match
He will be assisted by Aleksey Lunev and Roman Usachev. The fourth official will be Aleksey Sukhoy. VAR will be operated by Sergey Ivanov and Igor Demeshko. 

In the previous 47 Zenit games refereed by Sergey Karasev the team from St. Petersburg won 30 times, lost six times and 11 matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 12 November 2022 when Zenit played away against Torpedo and won 2-0.

The match against CSKA will take place in Moscow on Sunday 19 March and will kick off at 7:30pm St. Petersburg time.