Charentsavan City Stadium: Van vs Urartu Premier League pre-match guide

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Competition: Armenia Premier League
Competition: Sat 16.October
Match begins: 11:00 (UTC)
Venue: Charentsavan City Stadium

Stadium regulars at Charentsavan City Stadium haven’t celebrated many wins this season, with Van decaying in the 8th spot. The visiting Urartu will try to defend their higher league place in this match.

Insights:
  • Van have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Premier League
  • All of Urartu's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

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Van form and stats

The story so far in the Premier League for Van at their home stadium (Charentsavan City Stadium) is 1 win, 0 draws and 3 defeats. Van has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager A. Asoyan and the players.

Van are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 0-1 away versus Noravank.

Before that game, the home loss against Artsakh with the scoreline 1-2.

Van aren't scoring a lot here at Charentsavan City Stadium in the league, with only 3 goals from 4 games. 5 goals have been conceded.

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Urartu form and stats

Things could have gone better for Urartu in their Premier League away matches, but 3 points from 3 games is all right. Recent form does not give Urartu much hope, as the visitors have lost three games in a row. Van will be a tough nut to crack.

Urartu aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 280 league minutes without a goal. K. Melkonyan was the last player to find the net.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Premier League home defeat versus Artsakh with 0-1 on the scoreboard.

Preceding that game, the 0-3 loss visiting Ararat-Armenia's place.

The visitors have scored 2 goals from 3 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. The Urartu manager A. Petrosyan has some worries about the defense as 6 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Last three meetings with these teams: Van won one, Urartu were winners in two and we saw zero draws. two games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

VanZ. Badoyan
Z. Badoyan
4 goals
UrartuN. Grigoryan
N. Grigoryan
3 goals
UrartuU. Iwu
U. Iwu
2 goals

Van missing players

Urartu missing players

Van Urartu
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 3 7
2 1 0 Won W 1 1 3
1 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
5 3 1 Lost L 0 2 4
8 3 1 Scored S 2 2 9
12 5 2 Conceded C 1 6 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
62% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 86%
38% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 57%
12% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 14%
12% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
50% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 33% 29%
25% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
25% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 67% 57%
 
2.8 3 4 Corners for (avg) C F 6 5 6
5.2 5.8 3 Corners against (avg) C A 0 1.7 2.4
1.8 1.8 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 1.3 1.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
7.1 4.8 3 Shots (avg) S ( 14 9.7 7.6
3.8 2.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 9 5.3 4.4
27% 30% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 12% 29%
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • All of Urartu's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Urartu have created more than twice as many corners as Van.
  • Urartu have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Urartu haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Van have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Van have the most dropped points from leading position (5) in Premier League
  • Van haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 8 7 1 0 21 5 3 3 0 0 11 4 5 4 1 0 10 1 16 22
2 Ararat 8 6 0 2 18 8 5 4 0 1 15 6 3 2 0 1 3 2 10 18
3 Junior Sevan 8 4 3 1 11 6 5 4 1 0 10 2 3 0 2 1 1 4 5 15
4 Pyunik 8 4 2 2 11 7 3 0 2 1 1 4 5 4 0 1 10 3 4 14
5 Artsakh 7 3 1 3 10 17 1 0 0 1 1 2 6 3 1 2 9 15 -7 10
6 Urartu 7 3 0 4 9 10 4 2 0 2 7 4 3 1 0 2 2 6 -1 9
7 Noravank 8 2 2 4 6 11 4 2 1 1 4 4 4 0 1 3 2 7 -5 8
8 Van 8 2 1 5 8 12 4 1 0 3 3 5 4 1 1 2 5 7 -4 7
9 Alashkert 6 1 2 3 4 9 5 1 2 2 2 6 1 0 0 1 2 3 -5 5
10 BKMA 8 0 0 8 5 18 4 0 0 4 2 10 4 0 0 4 3 8 -13 0

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.