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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Adel Anzimati moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Ararat-2 than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The captaincy goes to Adel Anzimati. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.
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Uneasy
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Ararat-2's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Ararat-2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Match17 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Hayk Khachatryan after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Petros Alekyan is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Petros Alekyan’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Ararat-2 needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Next up on the road: Pyunik-2, position 14. The supporters who go will talk about it all week and the ones who do not will check their phones at ten to five.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Ararat-2
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Hayk Khachatryan after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Shirak-2 came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Match26 Sep 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Mika leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Hayk Khachatryan chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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Looking ahead
Home comforts ahead for Ararat-2
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Araks Ararat, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Ararat-2 dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Petros Alekyan has taken the shirt
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Looking ahead
Looking ahead: the trip to Mika
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Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
Syunik left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Hayk Khachatryan after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for Ararat-2
Araks Ararat top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
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Upbeat
Squad7 Sep 2026
Petros Alekyan named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Petros Alekyan is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Ararat-2 will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Ararat-2 than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Upbeat
Match29 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Levon Sarkisov. 2‑1 against BKMA-2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Hayk Khachatryan kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Petros Alekyan, 20, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Ararat-2 would like this to lead.
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Upbeat
Squad24 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.01 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match22 Aug 2026
Noah-2 made Ararat-2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match22 Aug 2026
Petros Alekyan among the goals in a wild afternoon
8 goals in one match, Petros Alekyan on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Ararat-2 and Noah-2.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Adel Anzimati has come up in conversations Ararat-2 were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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Steady
Match15 Aug 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Levon Sarkisov had Ararat-2 level again within 4 minutes, and Ararat-Armenia-2 never got to play with a lead at all.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Petros Alekyan was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match15 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Match8 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Ararat-2?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lernayin Artsakh? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Looking ahead10 Aug 2026
Next up at home: Ararat-Armenia-2, who go into it in position 7. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Ararat-2, 2‑1 the final word against Van-2 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match1 Aug 2026
Van-2 blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Van-2 tried to reorganise, Ararat-2 did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Hayk Khachatryan, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.