Lisburnsle 3 - 6 Clesby-on Town

Key Events:

• 8' Clesby-on Town Ignazio D'alessandro scores, assisted by Nenad Stupar
• 12' Clesby-on Town Nenad Stupar scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis
• 15' Lisburnsle Nilson Pires scores
• 16' Yellow card to Clesby-on Town Helio Da Costa
• 37' Lisburnsle Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Philippe Robert
• 53' Yellow card to Lisburnsle Pedro Chagas
• 54' Clesby-on Town Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Osvaldo Velasquez
• 58' Yellow card to Lisburnsle Michel Lemoine
• 64' Clesby-on Town Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Yaya Kamagate
• 67' Yellow card to Lisburnsle Nilson Pires
• 77' Clesby-on Town Michel Lemoine scores
• 78' Yellow card to Lisburnsle Willi Schneider
• 79' Yellow card to Clesby-on Town Michael Ryan
• 82' Lisburnsle Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez
• 85' Clesby-on Town Nenad Stupar scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Lisburnsle scored three from 1.9 xG, outperforming the Gazzetta chance-quality estimate by 1.1 goals. Clesby-on Town scored six from 3.89 xG, a larger overperformance of 2.11. That difference helps explain the scale of the scoreline: both sides finished above their estimated output, but Clesby-on Town also produced far more attempts, with 19 shots and 13 on target to Lisburnsle’s eight and seven. Lisburnsle’s 59% possession, 86% pass accuracy and fifteen corners suggest a side able to keep the ball and apply pressure. Clesby-on Town were more direct in the useful sense, creating the greater volume of shots and turning that threat into six goals. The numbers describe a peculiar division of labour: Lisburnsle collected the territory, while the visitors collected the scoreboard.

The final score was 3-6, and the sequence of goals made the result feel less like a slow separation than a contest repeatedly reopening before Clesby-on Town shut it again. Lisburnsle’s three goals, all scored by Nilson Pires, were enough to keep the hosts involved, but not enough to counter the visitors’ six-goal return. Clesby-on Town built the early advantage, absorbed Lisburnsle’s response, then added further goals in the second half. The hosts’ possession and corner count tell of sustained effort; the shot totals tell why that effort did not become a closer result. Nine goals, six cautions and a sizeable gap between corners and shots: the match supplied its own accounting, and did not appear especially interested in making it tidy.