Only a few games have been played in the Premier League so far, with Shirak placed 10th and Ararat sitting in the 8th position.
These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Premier League. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Gandzasar.
One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on grass and that the visiting Ararat have a different surface at their stadium (artifical turf). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on grass is 7-5-23 (win-draw-loss) from 35 matches.
Shirak form and stats
In their previous game, the manager T. Davtyan led his Shirak to a defeat in the Premier League match away at Gandzasar. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Gyumri City Stadium. Preceding that match was the home Armenian Cup game against Alashkert that was lost 1-2.
Shirak were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.
The match schedule is unforgiving for Shirak as they have a new game in only four days, a Premier League match thankfully also at home. Lori are visiting.
Ararat form and stats
Ararat have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Premier League were 0 victories, 0 draws and 4 defeats from 4 fixtures.
Impressive finishing from D. Khurtsidze secured the home win 3-0 against Junior Sevan in their previous game. Prior to that match, the Ararat manager V. Bichakhchyan faced defeat when travelling to Artsakh and losing 1-2.
A new game in only three days for Ararat, the Premier League home match versus Banants. Busy days.
1 goal so far away for Ararat, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Shirak seven wins, two draws and Ararat one victory. As for goals, six matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), four games had two or less.Shirak missing players
Ararat missing players
| Shirak | Ararat | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 50% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 50% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 3 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | 0 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 10 | 15 |
| 7 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 29% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 17% | 22% |
| Shirak | Last season | Ararat | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 28 | 14 | Played | P | 13 | 27 | ||
| 13 | 9 | Won | W | 4 | 9 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 6 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 8 | 12 | ||
| 40 | 23 | Scored | S | 17 | 31 | ||
| 30 | 13 | Conceded | C | 19 | 36 | ||
| 86% | 86% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | ||
| 68% | 71% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 69% | 63% | ||
| 54% | 57% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 46% | 41% | ||
| 29% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 31% | 26% | ||
| 11% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 19% | ||
| 54% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 54% | 52% | ||
| 32% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 8% | 22% | ||
| 29% | 14% | Failed to Score | F T | 38% | 33% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.9 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 3 | ||
| 269 | 152 | Total Shots | T S | 96 | 210 | ||
| 117 | 69 | Shots on Target | S O | 38 | 84 | ||
| 34% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 45% | 37% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Van | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| 2 | Artsakh | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 3 | Banants | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 4 | Alashkert | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
| 5 | Lori | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 6 | Gandzasar | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | Pyunik | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 8 | Ararat | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 9 | Ararat-Armenia | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 2 |
| 10 | Shirak | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | -5 | 1 |
| Last season | 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 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 52 |
| 2 | Artsakh | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 48 |
| 3 | Alashkert | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 47 |
| 4 | Shirak | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 46 |
| 5 | Lori | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | -6 | 40 |
| 6 | Ararat | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -12 | 33 |