Football
The RFU appointed a referee for the match between Spartak and Zenit in the RPL
The meeting of the eighth round of the MIR RPL between Spartak Moscow and Zenit St. Petersburg will be served by a team of referees led by Pavel Kukuyan, according to the website of the Russian Football Union (RFU).
The match will take place on Sunday, September 4, in Moscow. Watch the live broadcast on the Match TV channel from 19:00 (Moscow time).
Kukuyan will be assisted by assistants Alexei Stipidi and Vladislav Nazarov. Vladimir Moskalev has been appointed to the video assistance system for referees (VAR).
Zenit (17 points) leads the RPL standings after seven rounds, Spartak (16) is second.
OTHER TOUR DESTINATIONS ARE AS FOLLOWS:
September 3 (Saturday)
Orenburg – Khimki: referee – Sergey Ivanov, assistant referees – Alexey Lunev, Varanzo Petrosyan.
“Pari NN” – “Torch”: referee – Evgeny Kukulyak, assistant referees – Dmitry Cheltsov, Konstantin Shalamberidze.
Krasnodar – Sochi: referee – Pavel Shadykhanov, assistant referees – Dmitry Mosyakin, Denis Bereznov.
“Dynamo” – “Ural”: referee – Vitaly Meshkov, assistant referees – Maxim Gavrilin, Mikhail Ivanov.
September 4 (Sunday)
Wings of the Soviets – CSKA: referee – Artem Lyubimov, assistant referees – Alexander Kudryavtsev, Dmitry Zhvakov.
Lokomotiv – Akhmat: referee – Evgeny Turbin, assistant referees – Alexey Shiryaev, Andrey Gurbanov.
September 5 (Monday)
“Torpedo” – “Rostov”: referee – Yan Bobrovsky, assistant referees – Yegor Bolkhovitin, Adlan Khatuev.
Source: Sportbox
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