Struggling Pyunik will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Ararat in the upcoming league round. It’s 8th vs 1st and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.
- Pyunik have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
- Ararat have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premier League
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
It should be mentioned that Ararat play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Ararat on grass are 9 victories, 6 draws and 22 defeats from 37 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 40-57. You can compare this with overall results below.
There's local pride at stake here, as these teams are practically neighbours. Expect lots of passion from both players and supporters.
Pyunik form and stats
Pyunik's results here at Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht in the Premier League have been very modest with 0 victories, 5 draws and 2 defeats. Pyunik are slowly digging their own grave here at Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in seven attempts. The last victory here came in the Urartu match.
The Pyunik goalkeeper is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 180 minutes without conceding a goal in the Premier League.
In the preceding match a 3-0 victory visiting Van.
The lack of attacking qualities in Pyunik means that they have only scored 3 goals in 7 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Pyunik are not conceding a lot of goals here at Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 6 from 7 matches.
Ararat form and stats
As the visiting team in Premier League matches, Ararat have produced an overall stat of 3-2-3 so far.
The game before that, in the Premier League, was lost at home, a 2-3 defeat against Noah.
Ararat find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 8 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Ararat as they have only conceded 6 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Pyunik - Ararat 1-1 entered in the official records. Last ten meetings between the teams: Pyunik won three, Ararat won five and two draws. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Kone 6 goals | U. Nenadović 5 goals |  M. Tatarkov 2 goals |
Pyunik missing players
Ararat missing players
| Pyunik | Ararat | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 17 |
| 5 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 6 | 5 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | 3 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| 12 | 6 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 83% | 71% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 88% | 88% |
| 44% | 57% | 50% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 50% | 59% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 38% | 41% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 12% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 22% | 43% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 38% | 35% |
| 44% | 29% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 38% | 53% |
| 50% | 57% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 38% | 24% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.7 | 1.4 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.2 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5.7 | 5 | 1 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 3.5 | 7 | 5.7 |
| 2.3 | 1.4 | 0.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0.5 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
| 26% | 29% | 100% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 300% | 38% | 57% |
- Ararat have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Ararat have scored at least twice as many goals away as Pyunik have scored home.
- Ararat have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (3) in Premier League
- Ararat have the most dropped points from leading position (8) in Premier League
- Pyunik have the fewest matches over the total-line (2) in Premier League
- Pyunik have the most matches under the total-line (13) in Premier League
- Pyunik have yet to win a game at 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 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 13 | 31 |
| 2 | Alashkert | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 30 |
| 3 | Ararat-Armenia | 17 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 26 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 29 |
| 4 | Noah | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 28 |
| 5 | Urartu | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 24 |
| 6 | Van | 20 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 14 | -8 | 24 |
| 7 | Lori | 17 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 15 | -5 | 23 |
| 8 | Pyunik | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 21 |
| 9 | Shirak | 18 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 11 | 41 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 26 | -30 | 9 |
| 10 | Gandzasar | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 7 |