He will be assisted by Varantso Petrosyan and Maksim Kovalev. The fourth official will be Ivan Abrosimov. VAR will be operated by Artem Lyubimov and Vitaliy Meshkov. In the previous 32 Zenit games refereed by Sergey Ivanov the team from St. Petersburg won 20 times, lost six times and six matches ended with a draw. The last match was on 30 September when Zenit played away against Orenburg and lost 3-1. The match against Pari NN will take place at the Gazprom Arena on Saturday 9 December and will kick off at 7:45pm St. Petersburg time.