Bodman Rovers 2 - 3 Rugham Town

Key Events:

• 3' Yellow card to Rugham Town Jorge Alvez
• 5' Bodman Rovers Philippe Robert scores, assisted by Michel Lemoine
• 7' Yellow card to Bodman Rovers Michael Brown
• 17' Bodman Rovers Michel Lemoine scores, assisted by Nilson Pires
• 31' Yellow card to Bodman Rovers Allan Carroll
• 37' Yellow card to Rugham Town Phillip Lewis
• 48' Yellow card to Bodman Rovers Jorge Alvez
• 67' Yellow card to Bodman Rovers Michel Lemoine
• 71' Yellow card to Bodman Rovers Nilson Pires
• 72' Rugham Town Philippe Robert scores
• 78' Rugham Town Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Philippe Robert
• 85' Rugham Town Seungwoo Jeong scores

For Bodman Rovers, the opening spell showed how quickly a match can appear settled without actually being so. Their two goals came with assists from Michel Lemoine and Nilson Pires, and their seven shots on target indicate that the lead was not built on one isolated moment. But after going ahead, the hosts conceded three times, with Philippe Robert involved in both the equaliser and the goal that levelled the score. The five yellow cards, including four after the second goal, marked a more troubled second half than the first.

Rugham Town had to recover from a two-goal deficit, but the shot count and xG suggest the visitors had enough attacking threat to make that recovery more than a matter of fortune. Philippe Robert scored and assisted, Nilson Pires brought the scores level, and Seungwoo Jeong supplied the decisive goal in the 85th minute. Bodman Rovers 2 - 3 Rugham Town was a narrow result, but the route to it was emphatic in one respect: Rugham Town kept creating chances after the early setback, and eventually made the scoreboard acknowledge them.