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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Shirak-2
Emil Papikyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market30 Nov 2026
Shirak-2 have made Emil Papikyan available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Vazgen Sargsyan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Shirak-2 say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“If we are going to be beaten, let it not be because somebody in here could not be bothered.” He stood up and said it in front of everybody, which is a thing a squad remembers about a man for years.
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Uneasy
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sergey Manukyan, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Shirak-2
Vazgen Sargsyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Vazgen Sargsyan keeps the shirt for now, at Shirak-2's convenience rather than his own.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Lyova Karapetyan 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
Squad2 Nov 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
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Crisis
Match17 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Shirak-2
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Shirak-2 can tell you which week it ends in.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Shirak-2 against Hayq
0‑1 to Hayq, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Vazgen Sargsyan keeps the shirt for now, at Shirak-2's convenience rather than his own.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
An away day at Hayq next for Shirak-2
They sit in position 5 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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Shirak-2 will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout5 Oct 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Shirak-2 than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Shirak-2
0‑5 against Araks Ararat, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑5 defeat, delivered by Edgar Movsisyan to a room that had heard them before.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
BKMA-2 made Shirak-2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Shirak-2
Vazgen Sargsyan 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.
The dugout21 Sep 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.” Edgar Movsisyan, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Steady
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Shirak-2
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Shirak-2 are no longer polite ones.
The dugout14 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.” Edgar Movsisyan chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Ararat-Armenia-2 will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
A side in position 7 visits next. The result will not make anybody’s season and it could quietly break the shape of one, which is why the manager has been watching the video since Sunday.
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Steady
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout31 Aug 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.” Edgar Movsisyan chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.
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Steady
Match22 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Shirak-2
0‑3 against Bentonit Ijevan, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Edgar Movsisyan after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Looking ahead24 Aug 2026
Next up on the road: Van-2, position 13. 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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Upbeat
Match15 Aug 2026
Sardarapat left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager’s verdict
“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 1‑2 Edgar Movsisyan left the room before anybody could ask which.
Looking ahead17 Aug 2026
Home comforts ahead for Shirak-2
Bentonit Ijevan, position 10, 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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Triumph
Match8 Aug 2026
Pyunik-2 made Shirak-2 work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Edgar Movsisyan could afford to be generous.
Looking ahead10 Aug 2026
They sit in position 2 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.
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
Shirak-2 get the job done against Mika
A 1‑0 win over Mika, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Araks Ararat have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Grigor Ghumashyan. The answer from Shirak-2 has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Grigor Ghumashyan and Shirak-2 agree another 2 years.