Premier League preview: Can Ararat-Armenia edge out victory against Pyunik?

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Competition: Armenia Premier League
Competition: Sun 21.February
Match begins: 10:45 (UTC)
Venue: Banants-3 (3500 seats)

The league table in Premier League tells a story about these teams so far, with Ararat-Armenia leading Pyunik by 11 points. Match preview to follow:

Insights:
  • Ararat-Armenia has the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier League
  • Pyunik has the fewest scored goals (4) in Premier League

These teams are so close in distance that this match is special, a derby with local pride the main prize.

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Ararat-Armenia form and stats

2-2-1 (win-draw-lost) are the Premier League numbers at home for Ararat-Armenia, who have the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier League, so far this season.

The Ararat-Armenia goalkeeper Stefan Cupic is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 325 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.

It's back home for Ararat-Armenia, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Pyunik away with the result 1-0. Mailson found the net in that victory. The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Ararat.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Ararat-Armenia handle that role? We have found nine games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are six wins, two draws and one defeat.

There will be little rest for Ararat-Armenia after this match as they are travelling to Ararat for a Premier League game in only four days.

Goals decide football matches and Ararat-Armenia are scoring many of them at home; 12 on target from 5 league matches. From these home matches, Ararat-Armenia have conceded only 4 goals.

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Pyunik form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the fewest scored goals (4) in Premier League, on their Premier League travels is 1 win, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Pyunik have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 196 minutes ago. S. Alfred was the goal scorer.

The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Ararat-Armenia.

We have checked recent matches where Pyunik have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those three games were one victory, one draw and one defeat.

A quick return to home after this game, as Pyunik are hosting Banants in the Armenian Cup only four days away.

There's been a serious shortage of goals from Pyunik's away games in the league this season with only 2 goals from 5 matches. Pyunik are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 3 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Pyunik - Ararat-Armenia 0-1 entered in the official records. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's four Ararat-Armenia victories, one draw and two Pyunik wins. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Ararat-ArmeniaY. Otubanjo
Y. Otubanjo
3 goals
Ararat-ArmeniaD. Humanes
D. Humanes
2 goals
Ararat-ArmeniaJ. Martínez Aranibar
J. Martínez Aranibar
2 goals

Ararat-Armenia missing players

Pyunik missing players

Ararat-Armenia Pyunik
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
10 5 2 Played P 1 5 11
5 2 1 Won W 0 1 1
4 2 1 Drew D 0 1 5
1 1 0 Lost L 1 3 5
15 12 8 Scored S 0 2 4
4 4 1 Conceded C 1 3 8
70% 80% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 80% 73%
40% 80% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 20% 36%
30% 60% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 0% 0%
20% 40% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
10% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
30% 60% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 18%
70% 40% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 40% 36%
30% 20% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 80% 73%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.6 2 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2.4 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
7.1 9.4 14 Shots (avg) S ( 9 6.4 6.1
2.7 4 5.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 2 1.8
56% 60% 73% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 20% 19%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Ararat-Armenia has the fewest conceded goals (4) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia has the fewest conceded goals in the second half (1) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia has the most clean sheets (7) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia has the most scored goals (12) at home in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia has the the best goal difference (+11) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia has the the best goal difference (+8) at home in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ararat-Armenia have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Ararat-Armenia have scored more than double the goals of Pyunik.
  • Ararat-Armenia is in the best form (4-2-0)
  • Pyunik has the fewest matches over the total-line (0) in Premier League
  • Pyunik has the fewest scored goals (2) away in Premier League
  • Pyunik has the fewest scored goals (4) in Premier League
  • Pyunik has the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Premier League
  • Pyunik has the most matches under the total-line (10) in Premier League

  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 11 6 3 2 16 7 4 3 1 0 8 2 7 3 2 2 8 5 9 21
2 Ararat-Armenia 10 5 4 1 15 4 5 2 2 1 12 4 5 3 2 0 3 0 11 19
3 Banants 10 5 3 2 15 8 4 2 0 2 6 5 6 3 3 0 9 3 7 18
4 Alashkert 10 5 3 2 11 8 6 2 2 2 5 5 4 3 1 0 6 3 3 18
5 Lori 11 5 2 4 11 12 6 3 1 2 6 5 5 2 1 2 5 7 -1 17
6 Artsakh 11 4 4 3 15 11 5 1 3 1 6 6 6 3 1 2 9 5 4 16
7 Van 13 5 1 7 12 13 8 3 0 5 7 8 5 2 1 2 5 5 -1 16
8 Pyunik 11 1 5 5 4 8 6 0 4 2 2 5 5 1 1 3 2 3 -4 8
9 Gandzasar 8 2 1 5 10 12 5 2 0 3 7 7 3 0 1 2 3 5 -2 7
10 Shirak 11 1 2 8 8 34 4 0 1 3 1 10 7 1 1 5 7 24 -26 5

Read more about Premier League

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.