The report
Key Events:
- 11' Yellow card to Garsham Villa Zdravko Ivanišević
- 12' Yellow card to Garsham Villa Philippe Robert
- 15' Fainstbort Martin Mikkelsen scores
- 25' Yellow card to Garsham Villa Nilson Pires
- 26' Fainstbort Martin Mikkelsen scores, assisted by Mehmed Mašić
- 30' Yellow card to Garsham Villa Seungwoo Jeong
- 37' Fainstbort Lindomar Da Silva scores
- 42' Yellow card to Fainstbort Luca Colombo
- 54' Fainstbort Mehmed Mašić scores, assisted by Luca Colombo
- 54' Yellow card to Fainstbort Mehmed Mašić
- 67' Fainstbort Mehmed Mašić scores, assisted by Xinping Boon
- 73' Fainstbort Lindomar Da Silva scores
- 75' Yellow card to Garsham Villa Pedro Chagas
- 81' Fainstbort Lindomar Da Silva scores, assisted by Mehmed Mašić
Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Fainstbort scored seven from an xG of 5.44, an overperformance of 1.56 goals, but the underlying volume made the final margin anything but a statistical apparition: 24 shots, 20 on target, and 10 corners. Garsham Villa recorded an xG of 1.46 without scoring, despite putting five of seven attempts on target. The visitors did find some routes towards goal, then, but Fainstbort converted chances at a sharper rate and kept generating them. The 56-44 possession split points to control without requiring total domination of the ball; the decisive difference was what happened when either side got a shot away.
No Garsham Villa players reached a rating of 7.0.
Seven goals made this a comprehensive Fainstbort win, and the sequence of strikes showed the hosts could hurt Garsham Villa both early and after the interval. The visitors’ 17 fouls and five bookings suggest a side repeatedly forced into difficult defensive work, while their 11 dribbles and five shots on target show they were not entirely absent from the contest. But Fainstbort had the greater volume, the better finishing and three goals from Lindomar Da Silva alone. The result was 7-0; the underlying chance figures support a clear win, even if seven is a little more emphatic than the xG would have predicted.
The ratings desk
Standout performances
Lindomar Da Silva
Scored three times, including the 73rd-minute goal and the late finish that completed his hat-trick.
Mehmed Mašić
Scored twice and supplied two assists, contributing directly to four goals before collecting a yellow card.
Martin Mikkelsen
Put Fainstbort ahead and doubled the lead eleven minutes later.
Match Centre
Shot Breakdown
A booking nearby, then Martin Mikkelsen for Fainstbort. Tension, then arithmetic.
Gazzetta reconstruction from match events — not pitch tracking.
Key Moments
Team Comparison