Rotham Wanderers 0 - 5 Wat Pord United

Key Events:

• 4' Yellow card to Wat Pord United Avtandil Savadze
• 35' Wat Pord United Filemon Vazquez scores, assisted by Raymond Cordier
• 40' Wat Pord United Raymond Cordier scores, assisted by Avtandil Savadze
• 44' Wat Pord United Filemon Vazquez scores
• 52' Yellow card to Rotham Wanderers Allan Carroll
• 52' Wat Pord United Avtandil Savadze scores
• 72' Wat Pord United Mauricio Manriquez scores, assisted by Filemon Vazquez
• 89' Yellow card to Wat Pord United Raymond Cordier
• 90' Yellow card to Rotham Wanderers Pedro Chagas

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Wat Pord United recorded 3.59 xG and scored five, finishing 1.41 goals above the chance-quality estimate. That is a substantial overperformance, but the underlying shot count gives the result a sturdy base: the visitors had 16 attempts, 13 on target, against just two shots from Rotham Wanderers. The hosts’ 0.51 xG and two efforts on target suggest they did at least make the goalkeeper work, but they created too little to threaten a recovery. Possession was nearly level at 49%-51%; the difference was what each side made of it. Wat Pord United were more accurate with their passing and far more productive in front of goal, while Rotham Wanderers had more dribbles and corners without finding a route to a goal.

The defining spell came just before half-time: Wat Pord United scored in the 35th, 40th and 44th minutes, turning a competitive opening stretch into a three-goal interval of rather difficult arithmetic for the hosts. Filemon Vazquez scored twice, then supplied the assist for Mauricio Manriquez’s 72nd-minute finish; Raymond Cordier and Avtandil Savadze also contributed a goal and an assist apiece. The 52nd-minute goal extended the visitors’ lead immediately after Allan Carroll was booked, and the match’s remaining cautions arrived late, when the outcome had long since settled. Rotham Wanderers were not short of effort, but two attempts offered little room for a different ending.