Exminstlow Town 5 - 0 Emston Albion

The 5-0 scoreline was backed by a substantial gap in attacking volume: Exminstlow Town registered 27 shots, 23 on target, while Emston Albion managed five attempts and three on target. Possession was comparatively close at 52% to 48%, and the visitors even edged pass accuracy, 86% to 85%; neither figure translated into a contest near goal. Exminstlow Town made more of the ball when it mattered, while the visitors’ 16 fouls and four tackles against the hosts’ 10 suggest a side spending plenty of time trying to interrupt the damage rather than build a response.

Key Events:

• 13' Exminstlow Town Alex Da Cruz scores, assisted by Esad Šehić
• 17' Exminstlow Town Alex Da Cruz scores, assisted by Esad Šehić
• 19' Yellow card to Exminstlow Town Jorge Meza
• 22' Yellow card to Emston Albion Seungwoo Jeong
• 30' Exminstlow Town Om Nguyen scores, assisted by Jorge Meza
• 58' Exminstlow Town Alex Da Cruz scores, assisted by Esad Šehić
• 62' Exminstlow Town Alex Da Cruz scores
• 76' Yellow card to Emston Albion Nilson Pires
• 80' Yellow card to Emston Albion Michel Lemoine

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Exminstlow Town scored five from an xG of 6.18, finishing slightly below the chance-quality estimate despite putting four past Alex Da Cruz’s name on the scoresheet. That is less a complaint than a measure of how many opportunities the hosts created: 23 of their 27 shots were on target, and the expected return was already more than six goals. Emston Albion recorded 0.96 xG and scored none, a reasonable indication that the visitors found some opportunities but not enough to trouble the scoreboard. The contrast points to sustained home pressure, not merely a brief spell of clinical finishing; the early brace, third goal before half-time and two more after the break made the five-goal margin a fair reflection of the attacking balance.

• No Emston Albion players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

The result was settled in stages, but the pattern was consistent: Exminstlow Town kept finding ways to turn possession into shots, while Emston Albion could not make its share of the ball count in the areas that decide matches. The visitors’ three yellow cards arrived across the match, but the more telling figures were the 27 shots faced and the five conceded. For Exminstlow Town, Alex Da Cruz and Esad Šehić supplied the headline numbers; the broader performance supplied the reason the 5-0 scoreline never looked out of place.

• Pass Accuracy%: 85%-86%
• Tackles: 10-4