The league table is allowed to rest as Banants and Artsakh battle for Armenian Cup honors in this first Semi-finals leg of two fixtures.
Artsakh could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Premier League game only four sleeps ago.
This is a match between teams from the same area, a local derby. The community is buzzing.
Banants form and stats
Banants participated in Armenian Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals.When playing at home in the Premier League, Banants have managed 3 wins, 4 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 9 games.
Nothing to worry about in defence for Banants, as their goalkeeper has completely shut out the opponents for 286 minutes in the Premier League.
Banants's last game was hosting Lori and winning 2-0. Before that, Banants played out a Premier League draw 0-0 when visiting Ararat-Armenia.
The Banants fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 12 in 9 matches. Banants's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 11 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Artsakh form and stats
Artsakh's mission in Armenian Cup last season failed in the quarter-finals against Alashkert.Artsakh have only collected 8 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 2-2-4 (8 played).
Artsakh won their last game, 4-2 versus Pyunik played at home. It was a Premier League defeat before that one as the away game against Shirak wasn't a success with a 0-3 loss.
As you can tell from the result, the match against Pyunik was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 6 goals, will the fun continue today?
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Artsakh as they have only managed to score 6 times from 8 away games in the league. Artsakh have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Banants-Artsakh H2H statistics last seven meetings regardless of arena: Banants two wins, Artsakh three wins, two draws. three of these seven matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).Top Goalscorers
 M. Mayrovich 8 goals |  E. Kobzar 5 goals | V. Azarov 5 goals |
Banants missing players
Artsakh missing players
| Banants | Artsakh | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Won | W | 4 | 12 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 7 | 9 | ||
| 22 | 10 | Scored | S | 12 | 35 | ||
| 36 | 20 | Conceded | C | 19 | 31 | ||
| 84% | 92% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 92% | 92% | ||
| 64% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 76% | ||
| 44% | 42% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 52% | ||
| 20% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 28% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 12% | ||
| 44% | 42% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 23% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 42% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 24% | ||
| 3.2 | 3.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.3 | 5.6 | ||
| 5.1 | 3.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3 | 4.4 | ||
| 2.4 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2.3 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 146 | 65 | Total Shots | T S | 127 | 228 | ||
| 69 | 31 | Shots on Target | S O | 44 | 87 | ||
| 29% | 29% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 16% | 33% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Ararat-Armenia | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 33 |
| 2 | Alashkert | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 33 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 14 | 31 |
| 3 | Lori | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 18 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 29 |
| 4 | Shirak | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 28 |
| 5 | Ararat | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 10 | 6 | 28 |
| 6 | Artsakh | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 27 |
| 7 | Pyunik | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 35 | 33 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 23 |
| 8 | Banants | 17 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -1 | 23 |
| 9 | Gandzasar | 17 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 13 | -8 | 15 |
| 10 | Yerevan | 17 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 59 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 35 | -48 | 0 |