Marley Athletic 1 - 3 Eale Stanley

Key Events:

• 1' Yellow card to Eale Stanley Pedro Chagas
• 3' Yellow card to Eale Stanley Karim Coulibaly
• 13' Eale Stanley Zdravko Ivanišević scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez
• 21' Yellow card to Marley Athletic Friedrich Unger
• 21' Eale Stanley Allan Carroll scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas
• 76' Eale Stanley Michael Cedeño scores
• 89' Marley Athletic Lindomar Da Silva scores, assisted by Friedrich Unger

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Eale Stanley scored three from a Gazzetta chance-quality estimate of 2.83, a return close to the chances they fashioned. Marley Athletic scored once from 1.13 xG, also near its expected yield, so the difference was less about either side performing some unlikely act of finishing magic than about how often the visitors got into shooting positions. Their 13 attempts, including 10 on target, gave the hosts a much larger defensive workload than Marley Athletic’s five shots and four on target could impose in return.

Possession was fairly even, with Eale Stanley holding 52% to Marley Athletic’s 48%, but the shot count tells a more decisive story than the ball share. Marley Athletic recorded twice as many dribbles, 16 to eight, yet that individual progress did not translate into comparable volume in front of goal. Eale Stanley were more direct in the useful sense: they turned control of slightly more of the ball into repeated attempts, and two goals before the 22nd minute gave them a cushion that made the rest of the match easier to manage. The late goal from Lindomar Da Silva altered the final margin, but arrived too late to make the contest uncertain.

No players from Marley Athletic reached a rating of 7.0 or higher. No players from Eale Stanley reached a rating of 7.0 or higher.

For Marley Athletic, the late strike at least put a mark on the scoreboard after a difficult opening spell; for Eale Stanley, the early goals and sustained shot advantage did the substantial work. The visitors were not overwhelmingly dominant in possession, but they were markedly more productive with their attacks. A 3-1 result, then, that did not need elaborate explanation: Eale Stanley created more, scored three, and left Marley Athletic with too much ground to recover.