Ulvilth 2 - 3 Halversle

Key Events:

• 6' Yellow card to Ulvilth Pedro Chagas
• 13' Ulvilth Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez
• 15' Halversle Michael Brown scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis
• 16' Yellow card to Ulvilth Zdravko Ivanišević
• 24' Halversle Jorge Gonzalez scores
• 34' Halversle Michael Brown scores, assisted by Michel Lemoine
• 35' Red card to Halversle Phillip Lewis
• 57' Yellow card to Ulvilth Seungwoo Jeong
• 63' Ulvilth Michel Lemoine scores, assisted by Nilson Pires
• 67' Yellow card to Ulvilth Phillip Lewis
• 81' Yellow card to Ulvilth Michel Lemoine

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis

Ulvilth scored twice from 2.18 xG, while Halversle scored three from 1.90. Both sides finished close to the chances their opportunities were worth, with the visitors converting a slightly lower expected total into the decisive extra goal. The figures do not suggest a match where one side created nothing and escaped with a result: Ulvilth had 11 shots to Halversle’s eight, and both teams put seven on target. The difference was that Halversle made more of its chances in the first half, taking a 3-1 lead before Phillip Lewis was sent off at 35'. With a player advantage, Ulvilth had time and possession to pursue the comeback, and Michel Lemoine reduced the deficit in the 63rd minute. The hosts’ greater share of the ball and shot volume supplied pressure, but the numbers still left them needing one more goal than they found.

The red card could have turned Halversle’s afternoon into a long exercise in defending, and the closing stages did bring Ulvilth within one. Yet Halversle had already done the most important work: Michael Brown scored twice, and Jorge Gonzalez added the goal that left the visitors with enough room to survive the response. Ulvilth can point to its shot count and the higher xG as evidence that it made the game uncomfortable; the scoreline records that discomfort without mistaking it for a comeback. Five yellow cards for the hosts and a red for the visitors made discipline a conspicuous part of the evening, while the final 2-3 remained a narrow result rather than a rout.