Premier League preview and data: Ararat-Armenia - Urartu at Yerevan Football Academy

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Competition: Armenia Premier League
Competition: Fri 08.April
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Yerevan Football Academy (1500 seats)

Premier League: Ararat-Armenia host Urartu in what is nearly guaranteed to be an engaging football fixture. Tipsway gives you all you should know!

Insights:
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most scored goals (43) in Premier League
  • Urartu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

7 - 9 - 8 with 26-25. What does this mean? Well, these are the statistics for Urartu when playing on grass like they will do today. Wins - draws- losses and goals scored-conceded. Urartu play their home games on artifical turf so that's why we provide these numbers.

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

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Ararat-Armenia and Urartu.

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Ararat-Armenia form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Yerevan Football Academy as Ararat-Armenia have scored 21 goals to get 22 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Premier League are 7-1-1 (wins-draws-losses). Ararat-Armenia have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Ararat-Armenia, who played 1-1 against Urartu. That match was also played at this venue (Yerevan Football Academy).

Heartbreak before that as Ararat-Armenia lost 1-2 at Van's place.

The hosts are favourites to win this game, with an estimated chance of about 55-60% of that outcome. Earlier Ararat-Armenia matches with similar probabilities have ended with one win, two draws and one defeat (from four games).

The Ararat-Armenia manager Gunko has got the team scoring with 21 from 9 home games in the league. From these home matches, Ararat-Armenia have conceded only 8 goals.

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Urartu form and stats

As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Urartu have produced an overall stat of 3-4-4 so far.

Urartu has to pack their bags again for the second away game in a row. Last time they traveled to Ararat-Armenia for a 1-1 draw.

As mentioned above, the odds for this match puts the home team as favourites. Perhaps this eases the pressure on the away team, who are capable of producing an upset here on a good day. Looking at earlier matches with similar odds and Urartu playing away, we found six games. Results were two away wins, three draws and one home win.

The attacking power of Urartu when travelling is not overwhelming with 10 goals scored from 11 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Urartu have conceded 13 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams have faced each other before in this season, with the result Urartu - Ararat-Armenia 0-0 registered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Ararat-Armenia four wins, five draws and Urartu one victory. As for goals, three matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), seven games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Ararat-ArmeniaM. Lima Duarte Lopes
M. Lima Duarte Lopes
14 goals
Ararat-ArmeniaY. Otubanjo
Y. Otubanjo
9 goals
Ararat-ArmeniaW. Eza
W. Eza
7 goals

Ararat-Armenia missing players

Urartu missing players

Ararat-Armenia Urartu
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
23 10 2 Played P 3 11 21
17 7 2 Won W 0 3 6
3 2 0 Drew D 1 4 8
3 1 0 Lost L 2 4 7
44 22 7 Scored S 0 11 22
15 9 3 Conceded C 4 14 20
91% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 91% 86%
74% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 82% 67%
57% 70% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 36% 29%
13% 20% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 9% 10%
13% 20% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 10%
39% 60% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 55% 38%
57% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 18% 33%
13% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 36% 43%
 
7.2 7.8 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.9 5
2.8 2.8 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.3 2.8 3.4
1.7 1.8 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.4 1
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
8.5 9.1 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 5.7 6.6 6
4.5 4.8 7.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.7 3.4 3.2
43% 46% 47% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 30% 32%
 
4.3 4.7 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 4.7 5 5.1
1.8 2.1 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 2.5 2.3
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • 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 the most clean sheets (13) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most matches over the total-line (11) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most points (22) at home in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most points from losing position (9) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most scored goals (21) at home in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most scored goals (43) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the most scored goals in the second half (29) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the the best goal difference (+13) at home in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have the the best goal difference (+29) in Premier League
  • Ararat-Armenia have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Urartu have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

  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 23 17 3 3 43 14 9 7 1 1 21 8 14 10 2 2 22 6 29 54
2 Pyunik 23 16 4 3 35 18 10 5 3 2 11 11 13 11 1 1 24 7 17 52
3 Ararat 24 11 7 6 36 23 12 6 3 3 19 10 12 5 4 3 17 13 13 40
4 Alashkert 22 10 5 7 25 19 12 5 3 4 11 12 10 5 2 3 14 7 6 35
5 Artsakh 24 7 8 9 27 33 13 4 4 5 15 12 11 3 4 4 12 21 -6 29
6 Urartu 22 6 9 7 21 19 11 3 5 3 11 6 11 3 4 4 10 13 2 27
7 Van 24 4 7 13 13 28 13 3 4 6 10 16 11 1 3 7 3 12 -15 19
8 Noravank 24 3 7 14 15 35 13 3 4 6 10 15 11 0 3 8 5 20 -20 16
9 BKMA 23 3 5 15 18 44 12 3 1 8 12 23 11 0 4 7 6 21 -26 14
10 Junior Sevan 13 0 13 0 0 0 6 0 6 0 0 0 7 0 7 0 0 0 0 13

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.