Cullincast 0 - 8 Lough Park

Key Events:

• 7' Lough Park Silvestre Zarate scores
• 12' Lough Park Orlando Roberts scores, assisted by Mostafa Gaber
• 40' Lough Park Orlando Roberts scores, assisted by Ibro Milošević
• 46' Lough Park Adriano Pereira scores
• 49' Yellow card to Cullincast Dario Kovač
• 49' Lough Park Mostafa Gaber scores
• 53' Lough Park Ibro Milošević scores, assisted by Adriano Pereira
• 54' Yellow card to Lough Park Silvestre Zarate
• 56' Yellow card to Lough Park Mohammed Ojo
• 59' Lough Park Nelson Santos scores, assisted by Mostafa Gaber
• 63' Lough Park Silvestre Zarate scores, assisted by Adriano Pereira
• 82' Yellow card to Lough Park Nelson Santos

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Lough Park scored eight from 4.75 xG, finishing 3.25 goals above the chance-quality estimate. That is substantial over-performance, though 18 shots on target from 20 attempts made the visitors’ attacking pressure anything but a statistical mirage. Cullincast recorded 0.11 xG and no goal, a small shortfall attached to a very small supply of chances. Possession was relatively close at 47%-53%, but the shot count was not: Lough Park repeatedly turned its share of the ball into attempts, while Cullincast won 11 corners without registering a shot on target. Corners can be a useful route into a game; here, they did not translate into the kind of threat the scoreboard recognises.

Cullincast: No standout performers rated 7.0 or higher.

Lough Park:

• Mostafa Gaber (7.8) - Scored once and assisted twice, contributing directly to three goals.
• Adriano Pereira (7.8) - Added a goal and two assists as Lough Park kept finding ways through.
• Orlando Roberts (7.6) - Scored twice, including the goal that made it 3-0 before the break.
• Silvestre Zarate (7.3) - Scored twice, opening the scoring and adding another after the interval.
• Ibro Milošević (7.3) - Scored once and assisted Orlando Roberts’s second.

The final score, Cullincast 0 - 8 Lough Park, reflected the scale of the visitors’ advantage, even if their xG suggests the margin was larger than the chances alone would usually predict. Lough Park scored in both halves, with two goals arriving in the opening 12 minutes and three more between the 46th and 53rd minutes. Cullincast had a substantial corner count and nearly level possession, but neither measure produced a shot on target. For the visitors, the goals were shared across five named scorers, with Gaber and Pereira also supplying two assists apiece. For Cullincast, the numbers leave a narrow task for the next outing: turn more of the possession and set-piece opportunities into attempts, before the match gets away from them.