Haver United 0 - 5 Puryhipping

Key Events:

• 16' Yellow card to Haver United Igor Vrbanić
• 20' Puryhipping Zhe Low scores, assisted by Domingos Teixeira
• 29' Puryhipping Paul Smith scores, assisted by Ricardo Guerra
• 30' Yellow card to Puryhipping Herbert Witte
• 40' Yellow card to Puryhipping Paul Smith
• 45' Puryhipping Ricardo Guerra scores, assisted by Paul Smith
• 53' Yellow card to Puryhipping Saliou Sow
• 71' Yellow card to Haver United Mark Samuel
• 72' Puryhipping Paul Smith scores
• 74' Puryhipping Zhe Low scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis

Puryhipping scored five from 3.49 xG, outperforming the chance-quality estimate by 1.51 goals. That is a substantial return, though the visitors’ 15 attempts and 13 shots on target show that the score was supported by sustained, accurate pressure rather than a handful of speculative efforts finding their way in. Haver United finished without a goal from 0.46 xG. With just three shots and one on target, the hosts created too little to make that shortfall surprising. Possession was almost even, at 51% to 49%, but the more useful measure of control was where the attempts went: Puryhipping repeatedly brought the goalkeeper into the conversation, while Haver United rarely did.

The first-half sequence gave the contest its shape. Zhe Low opened the scoring in the 20th minute, Paul Smith added another nine minutes later, and Ricardo Guerra made it three on the stroke of half-time. The assists underline how the visitors shared the work: Domingos Teixeira supplied the first, Ricardo Guerra the second, and Paul Smith set up the third. After the break, Paul Smith and Zhe Low each scored again in a two-minute spell, turning a commanding lead into the final 5 - 0. The late goals were not a separate story so much as the same one continuing.

The possession and passing figures make the result more instructive, not less. Both sides completed passes at 83%, and Haver United even recorded more dribbles, 14 to eight. But those measures did not translate into comparable danger: Puryhipping had five times as many shots and converted five of them, while the hosts’ three attempts left little room for the match to become competitive. The yellow cards accumulated on both sides, but there were no red cards to alter the balance. In the end, Puryhipping were more direct in the decisive sense: they turned attacks into accurate attempts, then kept finding the net.

No Haver United players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.