Jagiellonia vs Ararat-Armenia 3-1

Jagiellonia beat Ararat-Armenia 3-1 in the UEFA Europa League league stage after turning the match around from an early deficit and holding the lead through the second half. The home side scored three times without reply after going behind on 11 minutes.

Ararat-Armenia struck first in the 11th minute when Zidane Banjaqui finished from Maxence Carlier, before Kamil Jóźwiak equalised two minutes later. Rodrigo Conceição then restored Jagiellonia’s lead in the 38th minute from Ferslev Anders Klynge, and the home side went in 2-1 up at half-time.

Jagiellonia made it 3-1 on 51 minutes through Ousmane Sow, set up by Jesús Imaz, and that was the last goal of the night. Sow came off in the 66th minute, while Jagiellonia then made two changes on 68 minutes and later sent on Aleksandar Cirkovic and Sergio Lozano in the 79th and 80th minutes. Ararat-Armenia also made two changes on 68 minutes and another two on 76 minutes, but they never found a second goal. Jagiellonia ended with more shots on target, 5 to 4, and a better expected goals return of 1.61 to 0.99, while Ararat-Armenia had 57% possession, 524 passes to Jagiellonia’s 385, and 15 shots to 14.

Taras Romanczuk was booked for Jagiellonia in the 20th minute, with further yellow cards for the home side going to Dušan Stojinović in the 83rd minute and Eryk Kozlowski in the 84th. Ararat-Armenia collected bookings for Bruno Wilson in the 30th minute, Manuel Jorge da Silva Cruz in the 49th and Elvin Tera in the 57th. There were no red cards.