Van secured a 2:1 victory over BKMA in the Premier League's regular season seventh round on Friday. The hosts held their nerve after BKMA equalised, with C. Lweendo's strike in the fifty-seventh minute sending the game into a final flurry. M. Asiryan had given Van the lead early on, and K. Sammani's response for the visitors kept things balanced for a time.
Asiryan opened the scoring in the fifth minute, a moment that set the tone for everything that followed. BKMA were not to be denied, and Sammani pulled one back in the fifty-first minute to level matters. Lweendo then put Van back in front in the fifty-seventh, and that proved decisive. By then the match had settled into a rhythm neither side could quite control.
Van dominated possession at 54 per cent and generated 88 attacks compared to BKMA's 70. They registered four shots on target against the visitors' single effort on goal. The statistics tell one story, but the game itself was tighter than those numbers suggest. To be fair, BKMA made the most of what they had.
Five yellow cards were shown across the contest, with Van collecting three and BKMA one. The bookings came at intervals: the first in the twenty-first minute, then forty-five plus one, followed by the two late cautions at seventy-fifth and eighty-ninth. No red cards changed the complexion of the encounter.
The result leaves Van twelfth on the table with just one point from six games. BKMA move up to eighth with seven points, a gap that feels more significant than the arithmetic. Van's recent form had been difficult, with heavy defeats against Alashkert and Shirak before their draw with Syunik.
For BKMA the three points extend a run of results that includes victories over Banañc and Gandzasar. They remain winless against their own home fixtures this season, a pattern that may yet prove costly. The match itself was decided in moments, not minutes — and those moments belonged to Van.
