Soudstle 0 - 8 Swick Palace

Key Events:

• 10' Yellow card to Soudstle Michel Lemoine
• 12' Yellow card to Swick Palace Pedro Rodrigues
• 19' Swick Palace Xinping Boon scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 23' Swick Palace Pierre Gauthier scores
• 31' Yellow card to Soudstle Jorge Alvez
• 35' Swick Palace John Lewis scores, assisted by Raul Sanchez
• 41' Swick Palace Pierre Gauthier scores, assisted by John Lewis
• 51' Swick Palace Pedro Rodrigues scores, assisted by Xinping Boon
• 72' Swick Palace John Lewis scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 76' Yellow card to Soudstle Pedro Chagas
• 80' Swick Palace Jusuf Softić scores, assisted by John Lewis
• 87' Swick Palace Xinping Boon scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Soudstle recorded 0.71 xG and scored none; Swick Palace produced 4.3 xG and scored eight. The visitors therefore finished markedly above the chance-quality estimate, converting with exceptional efficiency, while Soudstle fell short even of a modest expected return. The shot count helps explain how the contest tilted: Swick Palace had 20 attempts and 15 on target, compared with four attempts and two on target for Soudstle. Possession was not overwhelming at 57% to 43%, but the visitors made their share count, repeatedly turning attacks into shots that tested the goal. The gap between 4.3 xG and eight goals is the evening’s striking statistical wrinkle; the gap between the teams’ actual totals is the part nobody needed a calculator to notice.

• No Soudstle players reached a rating of 7.0.

The score was already 4-0 at the interval, after Swick Palace struck four times in the first half and Soudstle had collected two yellow cards. The second half brought four more goals, with Pedro Rodrigues, John Lewis, Jusuf Softić and Xinping Boon adding to the visitors’ tally. Soudstle did have more dribbles, 13 to eight, but that isolated advantage could not compensate for the visitors’ superiority in shots, accuracy and finishing. Three home bookings and 17 fouls offer a blunt measure of the pressure Swick Palace kept applying; the visitors, meanwhile, needed only eight fouls to get through the match. At 0-8, this was no narrow defeat or statistical oddity masquerading as one: Swick Palace controlled the decisive work, finished with ruthless success, and left Soudstle with a long list of numbers to consider.