Slow-ing Town 1 - 6 Bellington

Key Events:

• 7' Bellington Antonio Gonçalves scores, assisted by Arkadi Dzneladze
• 8' Yellow card to Slow-ing Town Michel Lemoine
• 9' Bellington Antonio Gonçalves scores, assisted by Arkadi Dzneladze
• 12' Yellow card to Slow-ing Town Pedro Chagas
• 22' Bellington Gordon Moore scores
• 25' Yellow card to Bellington Kieran Lee
• 39' Bellington Arkadi Dzneladze scores, assisted by Khadim Diakhate
• 49' Yellow card to Slow-ing Town Zdravko Ivanišević
• 56' Yellow card to Slow-ing Town Phillip Lewis
• 58' Slow-ing Town Nilson Pires scores
• 67' Bellington Arkadi Dzneladze scores, assisted by Antonio Gonçalves
• 76' Bellington Arkadi Dzneladze scores, assisted by Antonio Gonçalves

For Slow-ing Town, Nilson Pires’s goal at 58' interrupted the visitors’ run but did not alter the direction of the contest. The hosts won more corners, 11 to seven, and had the same number of dribbles as Bellington, yet the gap in shots and shots on target points to a match in which those measures brought little attacking return. Four yellow cards for Slow-ing Town, against one for the visitors, added a further rough edge to a difficult afternoon.

The 6-1 scoreline reflects both Bellington’s volume of chances and the finishing that carried them beyond their xG. Slow-ing Town did reach the net and held possession almost evenly, but those figures could not keep pace with a visiting attack led by two players who repeatedly made the decisive contribution. There was no mystery to the broad shape of the result: Bellington generated far more danger, converted it freely, and left the hosts with a long list of corners and very little else to celebrate.