Premier League match prediction: Little separates Alashkert and Pyunik in quality

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Competition: Armenia Premier League
Competition: Mon 21.February
Match begins: 10:00 (UTC)
Venue: Banants-3 (3500 seats)

This looks to be an interesting game as Alashkert have their expected home advantage, while Pyunik have an edge of 11 points in the Premier League standings.

Insights:
  • Alashkert is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premier League
  • Pyunik have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.

There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.

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Alashkert form and stats

Alashkert, who have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Premier League, have collected 12 points from their Premier League home games so far after 3-3-2. The team is able to perform also as the away side, as they are nurturing a very healthy winning streak of five straight victories regardless of arena.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Ognjen Cancarevic not having conceded a league goal in 306 minutes.

Happy days for Alashkert in their previous game, a fixture away at BKMA (placed 10th) that ended with a 2-0 victory.

In the game before, an away victory match versus BKMA with a 2-0 scoreline.

Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Ararat-Armenia are coming to town in four days.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Alashkert here at Banants-3 in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 8 games). It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Alashkert have conceded only 7 goals.

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Pyunik form and stats

Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Pyunik so far, with 7-0-1 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Premier League statistics. A great winning streak in away games for Pyunik as they have managed to win six matches in a row as the visitors. Not since the Noravank have they travelled home without three points.

Home advantage was not enough for Pyunik in their previous game as they lost hosting Ararat, 2-6.

A 2-6 loss hosting Ararat before that.

Pyunik are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 8 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Pyunik as they have only conceded 4 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Pyunik - Alashkert 1-1 was the product when these teams previously did battle, also in this season. Last ten meetings with these teams: Alashkert won three, Pyunik were winners in three and we saw four draws. three games with more than 2,5 goals, seven matches with two goals or less.

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Alashkert Pyunik
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 8 2 Played P 2 8 16
6 3 1 Won W 2 7 10
4 3 0 Drew D 0 0 3
4 2 1 Lost L 0 1 3
17 5 1 Scored S 4 15 24
13 7 3 Conceded C 1 4 15
79% 62% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
71% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 75%
43% 38% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 50% 38%
14% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 12%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
36% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 50% 38% 38%
50% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 50% 62% 56%
36% 62% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 12%
 
3.9 3.4 1.5 Corners for (avg) C F 1.5 4 4.6
4 5 7 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.6 4.5
2.2 2.4 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.4 6.8 4.5 Shots (avg) S ( 3 5.6 5.5
3.8 3.5 2.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.5 3.5 3.1
32% 18% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 133% 54% 48%
 
7.6 8.9 11.5 Shots against (avg) S A 3 4.5 5.7
3.7 3.9 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.8 3.4
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Alashkert have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4) in Premier League
  • Alashkert have the fewest scored goals (5) at home in Premier League
  • Alashkert is in the best form (5-1-0) in Premier League
  • Pyunik have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Pyunik have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded away.
  • Pyunik have scored at least twice as many goals away as Alashkert have scored home.
  • Pyunik have scored in all their away matches so far.
  • Pyunik haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 14 2 1 36 11 8 7 0 1 21 8 9 7 2 0 15 3 25 44
2 Ararat 18 10 3 5 34 21 9 7 0 2 21 9 9 3 3 3 13 12 13 33
3 Pyunik 16 10 3 3 24 15 8 3 3 2 9 11 8 7 0 1 15 4 9 33
4 Artsakh 16 7 4 5 25 24 8 4 2 2 16 8 8 3 2 3 9 16 1 25
5 Banants 17 6 5 6 20 17 8 4 2 2 14 5 9 2 3 4 6 12 3 23
6 Alashkert 14 6 4 4 17 13 8 3 3 2 5 7 6 3 1 2 12 6 4 22
7 Junior Sevan 13 5 5 3 14 11 6 4 2 0 10 2 7 1 3 3 4 9 3 20
8 Van 18 3 3 12 11 27 9 2 2 5 6 12 9 1 1 7 5 15 -16 12
9 Noravank 18 2 4 12 10 27 9 2 3 4 6 10 9 0 1 8 4 17 -17 10
10 BKMA 17 2 1 14 12 37 9 2 0 7 7 16 8 0 1 7 5 21 -25 7

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The Premier League is the top level of football in Armenia. It was founded in 1992; before that the Armenian top league was a regional tournament in the Soviet Union. The league has nine teams, most of them from the capital Yerevan. The teams play each other four times to create the final league table.