Grendles Athletic 1 - 6 Alseylannin

Key Events:

• 10' Yellow card to Alseylannin Feliciano Vieira
• 35' Yellow card to Grendles Athletic Paul Brown
• 42' Yellow card to Alseylannin Luca Marković
• 44' Alseylannin Koen Jansen scores, assisted by Charles Jensen
• 45' Alseylannin Laurent Gautier scores, assisted by Koen Jansen
• 50' Grendles Athletic Daniel Sanchez scores, assisted by Petar Dimitrov
• 51' Alseylannin Darren Hicks scores, assisted by Charles Jensen
• 68' Alseylannin Luis Martinez scores, assisted by Laurent Gautier
• 79' Alseylannin Charles Jensen scores
• 83' Alseylannin Luis Martinez scores, assisted by Koen Jansen

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Grendles Athletic 2.27 xG and Alseylannin 3.6. Against those figures, Grendles Athletic scored once, finishing 1.27 goals below expectation, while Alseylannin scored six, 2.4 above theirs. The visitors were more productive than the quality of their chances alone would predict, but their 16 shots and 13 on target also supplied a substantial volume of threat. Grendles Athletic managed nine shots, all on target, and still came away with only Daniel Sanchez’s goal. Possession was almost evenly divided, so this was not a simple case of one side keeping the ball and the other waiting for it to become useful. The distinction lay in the visitors’ greater shot count and dribbling output, and in their ruthless conversion once the game opened up.

The sequence around half-time changed the character of the contest. Alseylannin struck in the 44th and 45th minutes, putting two goals between the sides just before the interval. Sanchez’s goal five minutes after the restart briefly gave Grendles Athletic a response, but Darren Hicks replied almost immediately, restoring the two-goal margin and the visitors’ control. Luis Martinez added two more, while Charles Jensen contributed a goal to the attack he had already helped set in motion. The six-goal haul was a marked over-performance against xG, but the steady stream of chances and the 13 efforts on target made the result more than a freakish handful of finishes. Grendles Athletic had the ball slightly more often and earned more corners; Alseylannin made its possession considerably more troublesome. Football’s ledger is not always fair, but this one recorded the goals with unusual enthusiasm.

No Grendles Athletic players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.