Merfier City 0 - 5 Smels

Key Events:

• 10' Smels Carlos Sanchez scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas
• 29' Smels Phillip Lewis scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas
• 32' Yellow card to Smels Danilo Jaramillo
• 33' Smels Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Ivan Ćosić
• 79' Smels Carlos Sanchez scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis
• 85' Smels Danilo Jaramillo scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis

Smels scored five from 3.89 xG, finishing a little above the chance-quality estimate but well within the bounds of a team that repeatedly found dangerous positions. Merfier City produced 0.26 xG and no goals, a return consistent with the single shot they recorded. The gap between the sides was not merely a matter of sharper finishing: 16 shots to one, and 15 shots on target to one, show how little sustained attacking threat the hosts could muster. Possession was comparatively close at 52% to 48%, but the ball had rather different ambitions once it reached the final third. Smels turned its share into pressure and attempts; Merfier City had four corners to the visitors’ one, but those set-piece numbers did not translate into a comparable supply of chances.

For Merfier City, the figures describe a difficult afternoon in which defensive effort did not bring relief: six tackles against Smels’ 16, while the visitors kept returning to the attacking end. The hosts were not entirely absent from the match, as the possession split and corner count suggest, but they could not turn those spells into meaningful pressure. Smels, meanwhile, combined greater accuracy in possession with a much higher volume of shots, and spread its goals across the first half and the closing stages. The 32' yellow card for Danilo Jaramillo sat between Smels’ second and third goals, a brief interruption in a match that offered few interruptions to the visitors’ progress. By the end, the 0-5 scoreline had been built through a steady stream of chances, rather than one isolated burst.