Bech Ston Wanderers 0 - 5 Leigh Athletic

Key Events:

• 1' Yellow card to Leigh Athletic Takeshi Nakano
• 12' Leigh Athletic Emanuel Teixeira scores, assisted by Jeff Hill
• 32' Leigh Athletic Jeff Hill scores
• 36' Leigh Athletic Marcelo Farias scores, assisted by Ramiro Alvarado
• 41' Leigh Athletic Emanuel Teixeira scores, assisted by Mark Liu
• 45' Yellow card to Leigh Athletic Emanuel Teixeira
• 57' Yellow card to Bech Ston Wanderers Guillermo Peralta
• 65' Leigh Athletic Ramiro Alvarado scores, assisted by Marcelo Farias
• 84' Yellow card to Bech Ston Wanderers Pere Martinez

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Leigh Athletic scored five from 3.39 xG, outperforming the chance-quality estimate by 1.61 goals; Bech Ston Wanderers finished without a goal from 0.71 xG. The difference was not simply possession: the hosts had 56 per cent of it and completed more passes accurately, but managed only four shots, with two on target. Leigh registered 14 shots and put 13 on target. That volume and accuracy point to a side that repeatedly found routes to attempt goal, while Bech Ston Wanderers had too little attacking output to make their share of the ball count. Leigh’s finishing exceeded the estimate, but five goals were built on a considerable advantage in shots and chances, rather than arriving from nowhere.

The scoreline was settled early. After Emanuel Teixeira opened the scoring in the 12th minute, Leigh Athletic added three more before the interval, with Jeff Hill and Marcelo Farias among the scorers and Teixeira completing his second. The two Leigh cautions in the opening half did not halt that march; nor did the hosts’ greater possession translate into a reply. Ramiro Alvarado added the fifth in the 65th minute, leaving the remaining period to pass without another goal. Bech Ston Wanderers did record more dribbles and corners, but those figures offered little comfort against a side that made its shots count with such alarming regularity.

• No Bech Ston Wanderers players reached a rating of 7.0.