Crucial duel in the lower section of the Premier League, with both Ararat and BKMA suffering more angst than pleasure. This match is a classic "six-pointer" with the team playing at home at 7th and the guests in 9th place.
- Ararat have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premier League
- BKMA have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier League
There haven't been much to rest for the home side, as they played a Premier League fixture only four days earlier. That game was an away game at Alashkert, so at least Ararat are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Ararat form and stats
3 victories, 1 draw and 4 defeats. That’s what Ararat have to build on here at Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht in the Premier League. When Ararat hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Ararat, Shirak and Noah), they have won 1 of 2 matches!
A strong away win for Ararat against Alashkert the last match, as Traoré were on target. Finally, a league win after three games without one.
Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Pyunik (0-2).Ararat have scored {4 league goals} here from 8 matches, not a lot. It's worth mentioning that 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Ararat have conceded only 7 goals.
BKMA form and stats
BKMA have only collected 6 points from their away games in the Premier League, after 1-3-5 (9 played).
Two away matches in a row for BKMA, whose manager Nazaryan could celebrate last time after the win against Van. That win was so crucial for this team, after a horrific sequence of ten league matches in a row not winning.
The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-1 defeat against Shirak.A tale of few goals? 9 of this team's most recent 11 league fixtures have seen two or less goals.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting BKMA as they have only managed to score 5 times from 9 away games in the league. As opposed to that, BKMA have seen the ball go into their own net 10 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The dueling parties have fought before this season: BKMA - Ararat 2-1. Stats for the previous five meetings involving these two sides are: two wins for Ararat, zero draws and three wins for BKMA. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: one game.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Mkrtchyan 3 goals | A. Traoré 3 goals | R. Hakobyan 2 goals |
Ararat missing players
BKMA missing players
| Ararat | BKMA | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 8 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 9 | 19 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 5 | 11 |
| 12 | 4 | 2 | Scored | S | 0 | 5 | 15 |
| 19 | 7 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 10 | 30 |
| 84% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 50% | 89% | 95% |
| 53% | 38% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 33% | 53% |
| 26% | 12% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 22% | 42% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 22% | 32% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 26% | 12% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 33% | 47% |
| 42% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 22% | 11% |
| 47% | 62% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 100% | 56% | 47% |
| 4.2 | 3.9 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 5.2 | 5.9 | 8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 2.5 | 5.6 | 5.5 |
| 2.1 | 2.5 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6.4 | 5.4 | 8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 4 | 5 | 5.8 |
| 2.7 | 2.2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1.5 | 2.4 | 3.4 |
| 22% | 22% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 26% | 25% |
| 6.9 | 5.4 | 5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 7.5 | 7.4 | 10 |
| 3.4 | 2 | 1.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 2 | 3.9 | 5 |
- Ararat have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Premier League
- Ararat have the fewest scored goals (4) at home in Premier League
- Ararat have the fewest scored goals in the second half (3) in Premier League
- Ararat have the most matches under the total-line (14) in Premier League
- BKMA have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Premier League
- BKMA have the fewest scored goals (5) away in Premier League
- BKMA have the most dropped points from leading position (11) 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 | Banants | 19 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 34 | 15 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 4 | 19 | 44 |
| 2 | Ararat-Armenia | 19 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 39 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 28 | 40 |
| 3 | Pyunik | 18 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 12 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 34 |
| 4 | Alashkert | 20 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 32 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 19 | 8 | 34 |
| 5 | Van | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 8 | -3 | 27 |
| 6 | Lernayin Artsakh | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | -5 | 21 |
| 7 | Ararat | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 19 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 12 | -7 | 21 |
| 8 | Shirak | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 11 | -15 | 18 |
| 9 | BKMA | 19 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 15 | 30 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 10 | -15 | 12 |
| 10 | Noah | 19 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 41 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 20 | -23 | 12 |
