Froston Villa 0 - 5 Plyn an Wanderers

Key Events:

• 4' Plyn an Wanderers Erik Smith scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez

• 8' Plyn an Wanderers Gareth Davies scores

• 14' Plyn an Wanderers Zdravko Ivanišević scores, assisted by Gareth Davies

• 20' Plyn an Wanderers Erik Smith scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis

• 39' Yellow card to Plyn an Wanderers Allan Carroll

• 40' Yellow card to Plyn an Wanderers Jorge Alvez

• 44' Yellow card to Froston Villa Michel Lemoine

• 73' Plyn an Wanderers Gareth Davies scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez

• 81' Yellow card to Plyn an Wanderers Phillip Lewis

• Froston Villa: No standout performers rated 7.0 or higher.

• Plyn an Wanderers:

• Gareth Davies (8.1) - Scored twice, assisted another, and helped set the pace of a remarkably productive opening spell.

• Erik Smith (7.6) - His two goals gave Plyn an Wanderers an early foothold, then made it difficult for Froston Villa to find one.

The possession figures make the match look more balanced than it was: Froston Villa had 53%, but Plyn an Wanderers paired their 47% with twice as many shots and ten efforts on target. The visitors also made 15 tackles to Froston Villa’s seven, a measure of how often they were able to interrupt the hosts and move the contest back toward their own goal. Four yellow cards for Plyn an Wanderers and one for Froston Villa added some disciplinary bookkeeping, but no red cards altered the shape of the game. Froston Villa’s nine corners offered a steady supply of possibilities; the scoreboard remained unmoved by them.

For Plyn an Wanderers, this was a decisive away win built on an unusually sharp start and enough control to keep the margin emphatic after the break. Froston Villa were not entirely without threat, as their possession, corners and xG indicate, but could not turn those measures into a goal. The final 0-5 leaves little room for ambiguity: Plyn an Wanderers were far more effective in the decisive areas, and the match had effectively got away from the hosts before the first half was halfway done.