The dugout9 Nov 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: João Guilherme plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Match2 Nov 2026
4 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Zaven Khudaverdyan has come out of that comparison in the side, and Noah-2 have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market2 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Noah-2 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Zaven Khudaverdyan has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Match17 Oct 2026
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Noah-2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 8.42 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A season average of 7.05 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Noah-2 know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match17 Oct 2026
Minute 92, against Van-2, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Noah-2 know it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
They sit in position 13 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match3 Oct 2026
8 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.
Match5 Oct 2026
Position 15 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Match3 Oct 2026
Bentonit Ijevan left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Mkhitar Karapetyan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Match26 Sep 2026
2‑6 to Sardarapat, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match26 Sep 2026
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Noah-2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.66 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Match26 Sep 2026
8 goals in one match, João Guilherme on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Noah-2 and Sardarapat.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Match19 Sep 2026
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Noah-2 are no longer polite ones.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Sep 2026
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Noah-2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Match12 Sep 2026
5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match12 Sep 2026
Mika left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Mkhitar Karapetyan to a room that had heard them before.
Looking ahead14 Sep 2026
Pyunik-2 next, and one man in the Noah-2 dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Zaven Khudaverdyan has come out of that comparison in the side, and Noah-2 have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market7 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Zaven Khudaverdyan signs something — a contract at Noah-2 or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It is a strip of cloth and it decides nothing on a Saturday. It still tells the dressing room exactly whose opinion the manager values, which is the whole point of it.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑11 to Syunik, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A mark of 8.08 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Noah-2 can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Noah-2 are no longer polite ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 12 goals between Noah-2 and Syunik, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match29 Aug 2026
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Mkhitar Karapetyan after 1‑11, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shots: 12, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. João Guilherme provided it, and the 7.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 8.43 at 19, 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
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Noah-2, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
3‑5 to Ararat-2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Match22 Aug 2026
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Noah-2 and Ararat-2 in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 3‑5 defeat, delivered by Mkhitar Karapetyan to a room that had heard them before.
Match15 Aug 2026
1‑8 to Lernayin Artsakh, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A mark of 8.11 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Alashkert for Zaven Khudaverdyan was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Noah-2 and Lernayin Artsakh, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑8, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad17 Aug 2026
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Noah-2 are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match8 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Noah-2 and Urartu-2 in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 2‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 2‑4 defeat, delivered by Mkhitar Karapetyan to a room that had heard them before.
Market3 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Noah-2 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match1 Aug 2026
Three points for Noah-2, 2‑1 the final word against Andranik in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑1, already talking about the next one.