Arbitrator Sergei Karasev will judge Moscow “Spartacus “and Petersburg”Zenith ” in the match of the fifth round of the WORLD RPL, according to the website of the Russian Football Union (RFU).
Karasev’s assistants will be Maxim Gavrilin and Alexander Bogdanov, the reserve referee is Artyom Chistyakov. Vitaliy Meshkov and Igor Demeshko will be responsible for the Video Referee Assistance (VAR) system.
Watch the live broadcast of the Spartak-Zenit match on August 20 from 6:30 p.m. (Moscow time) on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Zenit scored 7 points and ranks sixth in the WORLD RPL rankings. Spartak has 9 points and the fourth line.
Judges Vladislav Bezborodov and Sergei Ivanov have not been named. In the match of the second round of the championship of Russia “Akhmat” – CSKA (2:3), Bezborodov named five shots from 11 meters and sent off two players. Ivanov worked for VAR in this game. Later, the RFU Expert Arbitration Commission concluded that Bezborodov mistakenly showed CSKA Moscow defender Milan Gayich a red card, violating the protocol of the VAR system.
Other fifth-round judicial nominations:
August 18 (Friday)
“Rubin” – “Wings of the Soviets”: judge – Sergey Tsyganok, assistant judges – Varanzo Petrosyan, Ilya Yeleferenko; reserve referee – Nikolai Voloshin; VAR – Andrey Fisenko; AVAR – Nikolai Yeremin; inspector – Sergey Matsyura.
August 19 (Saturday)
Dynamo-CSKA: referee – Pavel Kukuyan, assistant referees – Aleksey Stipidi, Andrey Gurbanov; reserve referee – Rafael Shafeev; VAR – Kirill Levnikov; AVAR – Valery Danchenko; inspector – Andrey Butenko.
Baltika – Urals judge – Vasily Kazartsev, assistant judges – Alexey Vorontsov, Dmitry Zhvakin; reserve referee – Vera Opeykina; VAR – Artur Fedorov; AVAR – Rustam Mukhtarov; inspector – Yuri Baskakov.
Krasnodar-Lokomotiv: referee – Evgeny Kukulyak, assistant referees – Maxim Kovalev, Sergey Karunenko; reserve referee – Roman Safyan; VAR – Vladimir Moskalev; AVAR – Ivan Sidenkov; inspector – Sergey Khraltsov.
Sochi – Rostov: judge – Roman Galimov, assistant judges – Dmitry Cheltsov, Khamid Talaev; reserve referee – Igor Panin; VAR – Alexei Amelin; AVAR – Adlan Khatuev; inspector – Alexander Gvardis.
August 20 (Sunday)
“Torch” – “BET NN”: referee – Evgeny Bulanov, assistant referees – Dmitry Mosyakin, Valentin Murashov; reserve referee – Anton Frolov; VAR – Artyom Lyubimov; AVAR – Anatoly Zhabchenko; inspector – Oleg Sokolov.
Akhmat – Orenburg: referee – Yevgeny Turbin, assistant referees – Andrey Obrazko, Konstantin Shalamberidze; reserve referee – Sergey Cheban; VAR – Alexey Sukhoi; AVAR – Roman Usachev; inspector – Alexandre Gonchar.
Source : MatchTV

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