National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Van or Junior Sevan that keep their silverware dream alive.
The visiting Junior Sevan played their last game only four days ago, a Premier League match.
Van form and stats
Van was eliminated in the quarter-finals last season in the Armenian Cup.Three Premier League home games done for Van, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
Van's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-2 versus Ararat-Armenia. The defeat against Ararat-Armenia was especially painful as the deciding goal against was scored four minutes into stoppage time (by M. Lima).
A 1-1 draw away in the Premier League before that, with Pyunik the opponent.Van aren't scoring a lot here at Charentsavan City Stadium in the league, with only 2 goals from 3 games. On the other hand, Van have conceded 3 goals.
Junior Sevan form and stats
They also participated in Armenian Cup last season. This ended in the 8th finals, when Ararat drew the shortest straw.Still no away game victory in the Premier League for Junior Sevan with 1 draw and 1 loss from their first 2 attempts.
The Junior goalkeeper Anushavan Tarverdyan is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 370 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Impressive finishing secured the home win 2-0 against BKMA in their previous game.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Alashkert.As for goals scored and conceded in the league games away so far, Junior Sevan has managed 1 goal and let in 4 from 2 matches.
Head 2 Head
Previous two meetings involving these teams: Van won zero, Junior Sevan triumphed in two and we saw zero draws. one game with over 2,5 goals, one match with less than 2,5 goals.Top Goalscorers
  Z. Badoyan 3 goals |  C. Marini Junior 2 goals | E. Jatta 2 goals |
Van missing players
Junior Sevan missing players
| Van | Junior Sevan | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 11 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 4 | Won | W | 7 | 21 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | ||
| 11 | 6 | Lost | L | 2 | 2 | ||
| 30 | 12 | Scored | S | 24 | 66 | ||
| 34 | 13 | Conceded | C | 11 | 19 | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 55% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 84% | ||
| 56% | 45% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 64% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 27% | 36% | ||
| 8% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 45% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 48% | ||
| 24% | 9% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 45% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 8% | ||
| 3 | 3.6 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2.5 | 2.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4.8 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 2.7 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 6.2 | 5.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6.5 | 6.8 | ||
| 3 | 2.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4 | ||
| 35% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 12% | 46% | ||
| 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 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 13 | 18 |
| 2 | Ararat | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 15 |
| 3 | Junior Sevan | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 13 |
| 4 | Pyunik | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 | Banants | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | Van | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | -2 | 7 |
| 7 | Noravank | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -6 | 4 |
| 8 | Artsakh | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 14 | -9 | 4 |
| 9 | Alashkert | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -6 | 1 |
| 10 | BKMA | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -10 | 0 |