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Europa League · League phase, matchday 3 Match report

Ararat Armenia 0-4 AZ Alkmaar: Result, Match Stats and Our Prediction

Ararat Armenia crest Ararat Armenia
0-4Full time
AZ Alkmaar crest AZ Alkmaar
Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan

Our picks against the result

10 of 12 right

  • Result AZ Alkmaar win61% 0-4
  • Double chance AZ Alkmaar or draw (X2)82% 0-4
  • Goals over/under 2.5 Over 2.556% 4 goals
  • More corners AZ Alkmaar73% AZ Alkmaar (5-6)
  • Yellow cards Around average 2 yellow cards · league 3.6
  • Yellow cards 2 yellow cards 3.5 Under55% 4.5 Under74% 5.5 Under87%
  • Corners Above average 11 corners · league 9.8
  • Corners 11 corners 8.5 Over68% 9.5 Over58% 10.5 Under52%

Match stats

Ararat Armenia AZ Alkmaar
  • 0 Goals 4
  • 2 Yellow cards 0
  • 0 Red cards 0
  • 5 Corners 6

Goals, yellow and red cards and corners of each club.

Before kick-off

What this page showed before the match: our reasons, form, ratings and records as they were then.

Match summary

Ararat Armenia vs AZ Alkmaar is the Europa League league-phase fixture on Thursday 22 October 2026, and our model goes with an away win, with AZ Alkmaar to win or draw as the double chance.

Why this pick?

Our model makes AZ Alkmaar the pick here, mainly on the strength gap: the visitors rate clearly higher on our long-run, xG-based measure, while Ararat Armenia sit below the Europa League average by a clear margin. The strongest point on the other side is the trip, with the altitude at the venue and the journey working against AZ. What covers that is the football: Ararat have lost both league-phase matches, conceding seven, and their recent play shows them giving up clearly more shots and big chances than the norm, while AZ create clearly more big chances than average. The call is a clear one.

Form guide

Ararat Armenia

  • W 1-0 at BKMA (A) Premier League · 18 Oct
  • L 1-3 at Jagiellonia Białystok (A) Europa League · 15 Oct
  • D 1-1 vs Alashkert FC (H) Premier League · 10 Oct
  • W 3-1 at Shirak (A) Premier League · 20 Sep
  • L 1-4 vs Sparta Prague (H) Europa League · 16 Sep

AZ Alkmaar

  • D 2-2 at Cambuur (A) Eredivisie · 18 Oct
  • W 2-1 vs Hapoel Beer Sheva (H) Europa League · 15 Oct
  • L 0-2 at Feyenoord (A) Eredivisie · 10 Oct
  • W 1-0 vs Telstar (H) Eredivisie · 20 Sep
  • L 0-1 at Sunderland (A) Europa League · 16 Sep

Last five competitive matches before kick-off, all competitions, results after 90 minutes.

Attack and defence ratings

Ararat ArmeniaAZ Alkmaar
Attack 0 37 1.0 goals per match this season1.0 goals per match this season
Defence 0 34 3.5 conceded per match this season1.0 conceded per match this season

0 to 100 against this season's Europa League clubs (100 = best). The rating is our model's long-run strength before this match: it uses the last three years and counts recent matches most, so a few results do not move it at once. Under each rating: this season's actual goals per match.

Head-to-head

Ararat Armenia and AZ Alkmaar have not met in our records since 2010.

Europa League so far

#Team PWDLGoalsGDPts
20 AZ Alkmaar 2 101 2:2 0 3
34 Ararat Armenia 2 002 2:7 -5 0

Positions in our table of 36 clubs, before kick-off. Full table

Match facts

Competition
Europa League, League phase, matchday 3
Kick-off
Venue
Vazgen Sargsyan anvan Hanrapetakan Marzadasht, Yerevan

Questions and answers

What was the score of Ararat Armenia vs AZ Alkmaar?

Ararat Armenia 0-4 AZ Alkmaar in the Europa League (League phase, matchday 3) on Thursday 22 October 2026.

Was the OptimaGoal prediction for Ararat Armenia vs AZ Alkmaar right?

Yes: our result pick was AZ Alkmaar win, and the score after 90 minutes was 0-4. 10 of our 12 picks and markets for this match were right.

How many cards and corners were there in Ararat Armenia vs AZ Alkmaar?

2 yellow cards (Ararat Armenia 2, AZ Alkmaar 0), no red cards and 11 corners (Ararat Armenia 5, AZ Alkmaar 6).

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