FFA: There was no contractual match between Armenia and Belarus

ArmInfo. The press office of the Football Federation of Armenia categorically refutes the information on a possible contractual match of the national team of Armenia with the team of Belarus.

The international organization Federbet once again suspected the  Football Federation of Armenia of organizing a contractual match,  this time with Belarus. In 2015, the Armenian team was suspected of  surrendering the game with the Albanian team, which thus for the  first time in history made its way to the 

The friendly match between the national teams of Armenia and Belarus,  which took place on November 9 at the Republican Stadium in Yerevan  ended with the score 4: 1 in favor of the Armenian national team.   Araz Ozbiliz, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Rumyan Hovsepyan and Erik Vardanyan  recorded goals at their own expense. In the national team of Belarus,  Anton Saroka distinguished himself, who realized a penalty. Both  teams in the qualifying round of the 2018 World Cup could not make it  to the final stage of the tournament.  November 13 Armenian national  team to hold second friendly match in Yerevan with the national team  of Cyprus.

In particular, the unusual movements of rates and odds during the  match were evaluated by analysts of Federbet as abnormal. It is noted  that before the match of strange movements the coefficients were not.   However, international bookmakers opened the line to the market  "total more than 2.5" (3 or more goals in the match) with  coefficients in the area of "two", which led to suspicion.  It is  noted that suspicions were confirmed: by the end of the first half  Araz Ozbiliz and Henrik Mkhitaryan scored two quick goals, and 10  minutes after the start of the second half, the score was already 3:  0 and, Anomalous movement of the coefficient, suspicious rates have  played.

Recall that the head of the Armenian Football Federation Ruben  Hayrapetyan transferred the arrows for the defeat of Albania to the  leading players of the team: striker Yuri Movsisyan, stopper Robert  Arzumanyan and goalkeeper Gevorg Kasparov. Hayrapetyan accused them  of deliberately handing over the match to the Albanians and forbade  them to speak in the national team, saying that "while I lead the  federation, they will not play in the team." Airapetian's activity  led to the formation of powerful holes in almost all the teams of the  national team, which coaches can not repair for two years already.