Alcoth Stanley 6 - 1 Marley Athletic

Key Events:

• 26' Yellow card to Marley Athletic Saliou Sow
• 27' Alcoth Stanley Antonio Arias scores, assisted by Allan Carroll
• 30' Yellow card to Marley Athletic Xinping Boon
• 31' Alcoth Stanley Antonio Arias scores
• 42' Alcoth Stanley Phillip Lewis scores
• 51' Alcoth Stanley Michel van der Zee scores
• 53' Yellow card to Alcoth Stanley Stojan Davidović
• 54' Yellow card to Alcoth Stanley Phillip Lewis
• 65' Marley Athletic Luca Colombo scores, assisted by Luis Pinto
• 69' Yellow card to Alcoth Stanley Marcelino Pires
• 71' Alcoth Stanley Antonio Arias scores, assisted by Marcelino Pires
• 77' Yellow card to Alcoth Stanley Jorge Alvez
• 86' Alcoth Stanley Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Alcoth Stanley scored six from an xG of 3.6, an overperformance of 2.4 goals; Marley Athletic scored once from 0.93 xG, close to its chance-quality estimate. The hosts therefore converted with exceptional efficiency, while the visitors’ single goal broadly matched the opportunities their shots produced. The shot figures help explain how the gap opened: Alcoth Stanley put 13 of 16 attempts on target, compared with two of six for Marley Athletic. Possession and corners belonged to the visitors, but the hosts were markedly more direct in the decisive measure of getting efforts toward goal. Six goals from 3.6 xG is not a rate to assume will repeat on demand; on this occasion, though, it turned a strong attacking display into a 6-1 result.

No Marley Athletic players reached the recorded 7.0 rating threshold.

The 6-1 final score was emphatic, but it did not arrive through control of the ball: Marley Athletic had 52% possession, completed passes more accurately and won six corners to Alcoth Stanley’s one. The hosts instead made their possession count with 16 shots, far more tackles than the visitors, and a finishing display that ran well ahead of the xG estimate. Marley Athletic did find a goal through Luca Colombo after the break, assisted by Luis Pinto, but Alcoth Stanley restored the four-goal cushion six minutes later and added another late on. Four home yellow cards and two for the visitors supplied the match with a modest disciplinary subplot; no red cards followed. In the end, Alcoth Stanley took the points by turning fewer corners and less possession into a much larger return where it mattered.