Courgarley 5 - 0 Crough Villa

Key Events:

• 8' Courgarley Salomon Fernandez scores, assisted by Joel Navarro
• 9' Yellow card to Crough Villa Ricardo Caceres
• 14' Courgarley Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Joel Navarro
• 22' Courgarley Phillip Lewis scores, assisted by Salomon Fernandez
• 36' Yellow card to Courgarley Salomon Fernandez
• 40' Courgarley Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Salomon Fernandez
• 50' Courgarley Allan Carroll scores
• 56' Yellow card to Crough Villa Jakob Laursen
• 60' Yellow card to Courgarley Guy Bailly
• 88' Yellow card to Crough Villa Gregory Davis

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Courgarley scored five from an xG of 2.17, substantially outperforming the chance-quality estimate. Eight of their nine shots were on target, a return that helps explain how a modest shot count became such a large scoreline, though five goals still represent remarkable finishing against the chances measured. Crough Villa’s 0.81 xG and two shots on target produced no goals. Courgarley had a slight possession advantage, 53% to 47%, but the bigger distinction was in the outcomes: the hosts made their attacks count, while the visitors could not convert their opportunities into pressure on the scoreboard.

No Crough Villa players reached a recorded rating of 7.0.

The score was already 4-0 by the interval, with Pedro Chagas scoring twice and Salomon Fernandez involved in three of the first four goals. The fifth arrived in the 50th minute through Allan Carroll, extending a lead that had been built with speed and kept intact thereafter. Crough Villa committed more fouls and collected more yellow cards, but neither figure brought a change in direction. Courgarley’s five corners to none also point to the greater attacking presence of the hosts, even as possession remained fairly close.

For Courgarley, this was an emphatic win, though the gap between 2.17 xG and five goals gives the finishing a little of the credit due to fortune as well as skill. For Crough Villa, the 0-5 defeat was not simply a matter of having less of the ball: the visitors had almost half the possession, but only two shots on target and no corners to turn it into a closer contest. Courgarley leave with all five goals and a clean sheet; Crough Villa leave with the sort of arithmetic that requires no interpretation.