About Match
On paper the standings are lopsided — Noah 1st with 18 points, Ararat 10th with 3, 15 apart. Against a league average of 1.44 goals per team per game, Ararat run at 0.5 scored and 2.17 conceded, Noah at 2.67 and 0.83. Three points here take Ararat to 6 and up to 9th, assuming other results stand.
Ararat enter with three losses in a row. Noah enter with eight wins in a row, having scored in 11 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, Ararat hold 3 points of 15 and Noah 15.
16 meetings are on record — 2 won by Ararat, 12 by Noah, 2 drawn, at 3.63 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 69% of the meetings went to the host. The fixture leans high-scoring: 63% of meetings brought at least three goals. 4.6 goals per game in the last five meetings marks a step up from the historical 3.63.
The venue is Pyunik Training Centre in Yerevan, with room for 1,400 spectators.