22 September, 17:00, Yerevan, Republican Stadium, Matchday 8

After a painful defear suffered from Alashkert our team could quickly come together and despite of the loss of players managed to win 2-1 Gandzasar-Kapan in an away match of the previous matchday.

In the match against the Kapan team Aras Ozbilis, midfielder of the Armenia national team, opened the score of his goals in Pyunik and also scored his first goal in the Armenian Premier League.

And Denis Mahmudov who opened the score of the match against Gandzasar-Kapan, scored his third goal in the current championship and in the struggle of our team’s top scorers caught up with Artyom Simonyan who has also scored three goals.

At present Pyunik places 6th in the standings and has nine points.

In the penultimate match of the first round of the current championship Pyunik will host Noah which was called Artsakh in the previous championship and was renamed Noah on the eve of the current season.

It should be noted that last season Noah (former Artsakh) along with Shirak was one of the two teams against which Pyunik was invincible. Of four played matches in three the success accompanied our team and one match ended in a goalless draw.

By the way,  in one of the episodes of the second half of the very goalless match of the previous championship our team’s Russian goalkeeper Evgeni Kobozev got a jaw fracture as a result of a collision with the rival and was out for a long time.

It’s noteworthy that Pyunik approaches the upcoming match with personnel problems.  Yet in one of the trainings before the match against Gandzasar-Kapan defender Anton Belov has got a serious injury and won’t be able to help our team in the near future. Right-back Antonio Stankov has also got injured and has left for the Netherlands for treatment. Forward Artur Miranyan missed the previous match too because of illness.

Let us add Pyunik vs Noah match will take place at Republican Stadium on September 22 at 17:30.