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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Pyunik-2
Nikos Kainourgios and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Nikos Kainourgios keeps the shirt for now, at Pyunik-2's convenience rather than his own.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Nikos Kainourgios is the talk of the training ground
Sharpest man there all week, by every account. It is the quietest line on this page and it usually runs the week before somebody’s run in the side begins.
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Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Ararat-2 leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Arman Spertsyan was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Pyunik-2 dressing room was either.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Pyunik-2 was different afterwards.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Robert Darbinyan keeps the shirt for now, at Pyunik-2's convenience rather than his own.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Home comforts ahead for Pyunik-2
Ararat-2, position 8, come to town on Saturday. Nobody will call it a big game and nobody at the club will be treating it as anything else.
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Match3 Oct 2026
Mika punish Pyunik-2 for switching off
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Kamil Mullin will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Pyunik-2 escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Match5 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Pyunik-2
Position 14 and 4 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
14 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑4 by Syunik, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
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.
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Match19 Sep 2026
It had gone 6 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Hovhannes Karapetyan. 1‑0 against Noah-2, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
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Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Pyunik-2
6 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Pyunik-2 cannot find the net
5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match12 Sep 2026
Lernayin Artsakh left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pyunik-2 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Hayk Tatosyan has moved up it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy goes to Hayk Tatosyan. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Pyunik-2
5 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a goal for Pyunik-2
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
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Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 12 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑3 by Andranik, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Pyunik-2's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pyunik-2 has to find a result from somewhere.
Match22 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Pyunik-2
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match22 Aug 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Pyunik-2
4 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match15 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Pyunik-2
A 0‑3 beating by Hayq was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Pyunik-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.
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Match8 Aug 2026
0‑2 to Shirak-2, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Looking ahead10 Aug 2026
Looking ahead: the trip to Hayq
Position 13 for the hosts, a long journey for the away end, and a fixture that will look ordinary on paper right up until it is not.
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Crisis
Match1 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Pyunik-2 and Araks Ararat, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Pyunik-2 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.