Baster Wanderers 9 - 0 Walifnage Rovers

Key Events:

• 3' Yellow card to Baster Wanderers John Holmes
• 11' Baster Wanderers Benedito Santos scores, assisted by Doumbia Kouame
• 14' Yellow card to Walifnage Rovers Zdravko Ivanišević
• 15' Baster Wanderers Doumbia Kouame scores, assisted by Gia Khachishvili
• 34' Baster Wanderers Doumbia Kouame scores, assisted by John Holmes
• 50' Yellow card to Walifnage Rovers Allan Carroll
• 51' Baster Wanderers Shigeo Tanaka scores, assisted by Benedito Santos
• 58' Baster Wanderers Benedito Santos scores, assisted by John Holmes
• 59' Yellow card to Baster Wanderers Benedito Santos
• 61' Yellow card to Baster Wanderers Shigeo Tanaka
• 64' Baster Wanderers Doumbia Kouame scores, assisted by Gia Khachishvili
• 67' Baster Wanderers James Walters scores
• 79' Baster Wanderers Carlos Rodriguez scores, assisted by Gia Khachishvili
• 82' Baster Wanderers Luis Leal scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Baster Wanderers 4.01 xG and Walifnage Rovers 0.01. The nine goals therefore represent substantial finishing above the expected return, while the visitors’ zero shots and near-zero xG match the blank on the scoreboard: they did not create a meaningful scoring threat. Baster Wanderers put 15 of 17 shots on target, a striking level of accuracy that helps explain how the score ran so far beyond the underlying chance estimate. The 48% possession share also makes clear that territorial control was not the whole story. Walifnage Rovers had 52% possession and nine corners, but those measures brought no shots; Baster Wanderers made far more of their opportunities.

No Walifnage Rovers players reached a 7.0 rating.

The 9-0 result was emphatic, but the match statistics contain a small oddity: Walifnage Rovers edged possession, corners, dribbles and pass accuracy while never registering a shot. Those figures describe circulation and activity, not danger; the attack never converted its share of the ball into an attempt on goal. Baster Wanderers, meanwhile, were not merely efficient in isolated moments. They kept producing shots on target, with Doumbia Kouame completing a hat-trick and Gia Khachishvili supplying three assists as the scoring spread across the match. The three-to-zero count in yellow cards for the hosts also suggests that the goals did not make the contest entirely serene. Still, the final margin requires little interpretation: Baster Wanderers turned a large advantage in threat into a nine-goal win, while Walifnage Rovers left with possession figures and no shot to show for them.