The Armenia national team will begin another edition of the Nations League in the third-tier division of the tournament. In the 2024/2025 season, the Armenian side, not without effort, secured second place in a group with Latvia, the Faroe Islands and North Macedonia, but in the promotion play-offs they were twice outmatched by the stronger Georgia. Overall, given the squad and the results it achieves year after year, Armenia rightly occupies a place in League C. It would seem that the Armenian squad strives and fights for points in every match, but opponents such as Portugal show its place in European football with 5-0 and 9-1 thrashings. Moreover, after nine goals conceded at Dragao, the local football federation decided not to change the coaching staff headed by Egishe Melikyan. The 47-year-old specialist was appointed to the post a little over a year ago and was preparing the team for the new edition of the Nations League. Besides Latvia, Armenia's group opponents are Montenegro and Cyprus. That is, in this quartet there is not a single national team that would be beyond the reach of Eduard Spertsyan and his teammates. However, they need to start the new campaign with a winning result. Especially since it's a home match. Latvia is even lower in the hierarchy of European football than the opponent. The Baltic side has only one player whose transfer value exceeds 700 thousand euros. And in the case of Dennis Sirkins, we’re talking about a defender who, as a free agent, left Sunderland in the summer for QPR. He is trying to cement his place in the London club’s squad. Sirkins has not yet played a single match for the new club in full, and in the last league match he let his team down by receiving a red card. In the previous Nations League Latvia lost to Armenia twice (1-4 and 1-2), finishing last in the group. Latvia’s reprieve from relegation to the weakest division of the tournament came thanks to two 1-0 victories in the playoff matches against Gibraltar, which sits 202nd in the FIFA rankings. Armenia is the outright favorite of the upcoming meeting, has a higher-quality pool of players and the home-field advantage. All that remains is to beat the visiting opponent.