The visiting Ararat-Armenia side should be favourites in this visit to Artsakh, as the away team holds a 22 point advantage from their 22 league games this season.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
This is a local derby, usually meaning added tension and importance.
Artsakh form and stats
Artsakh have collected 13 points from their home games so far after 2-7-2.In their previous game, the manager S. Arzumanyan led his Artsakh to a defeat in the Premier League match away at Alashkert. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at MF Stadion. Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Gandzasar.
The manager S. Arzumanyan will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Shirak in only four days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Artsakh here at MF Stadion, with less than one goal per game on average (10 from 11 games). From these home matches, Artsakh have conceded only 9 goals.
Ararat-Armenia form and stats
Ararat-Armenia, who have the most scored goals (32) in Premier League, have an excellent away record so far with 7-2-2 from 11 games. Long winning streaks away are a rare occurrence in football, which only makes Ararat-Armenia's record of four away victories in a row even more impressive. They last lost points away in the Shirak game.Ararat-Armenia delivered a 2-2 draw playing at home against Shirak in their previous match; a Premier League game. Ahead of that game was the 2-2 draw at home against Alashkert in the Armenian Cup.
After this away game Ararat-Armenia return home for a Premier League game against Banants. That game is only four sleeps after this.
Ararat-Armenia are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 16 away goals from 11 games. Ararat-Armenia are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 6 times in 11 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
These teams' last encounter with each other was the Ararat-Armenia - Artsakh 3-1 earlier this season. As for the last four games between these two teams, there's 1 Artsakh victory, 1 draw and 2 Ararat-Armenia wins.Top Goalscorers
  A. Kobyalko 7 goals |   E. Avagyan 3 goals |  J. Bougouhi 3 goals |
Artsakh missing players
Ararat-Armenia missing players
| Artsakh | Ararat-Armenia | |||
| Total | Home | Statistic | Away | Total |
| 22 | 11 | Played | 11 | 22 |
| 16 | 10 | Scored | 16 | 32 |
| 32 | 9 | Conceded | 6 | 17 |
| 82% | 73% | Over 0.5 | 91% | 82% |
| 64% | 55% | Over 1.5 | 55% | 59% |
| 32% | 18% | Over 2.5 | 36% | 45% |
| 23% | 18% | Over 3.5 | 18% | 32% |
| 14% | 9% | Over 4.5 | 0% | 5% |
| 36% | 45% | Both teams to score | 27% | 41% |
| 32% | 45% | Clean Sheet | 64% | 50% |
| 50% | 36% | Failed To Score | 18% | 27% |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | D | P |
| 1 | Alashkert | 22 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 11 | 40 |
| 2 | Ararat-Armenia | 22 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 32 | 17 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 6 | 15 | 39 |
| 3 | Banants | 22 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 31 | 24 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 38 |
| 4 | Pyunik | 23 | 11 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 26 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 37 |
| 5 | Lori | 22 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 31 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 34 |
| 6 | Shirak | 23 | 6 | 11 | 6 | 19 | 21 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 15 | -2 | 29 |
| 7 | Gandzasar | 22 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 22 | 26 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 14 | -4 | 23 |
| 8 | Artsakh | 22 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 32 | 11 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 23 | -16 | 17 |
| 9 | Ararat | 22 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 19 | -20 | 15 |
