Cold Stanley 3 - 1 Barle City

Key Events:

• 24' Yellow card to Barle City Junichi Seto
• 47' Cold Stanley Magnus Petersen scores
• 50' Cold Stanley Klaus Bergmann scores, assisted by Magnus Petersen
• 80' Barle City Pablo Carrizo scores, assisted by Luis Jaimes
• 83' Yellow card to Cold Stanley Mark Robinson
• 85' Cold Stanley Thomas Kane scores, assisted by Raimundo Goulart
• 86' Yellow card to Cold Stanley Niall Ross

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Cold Stanley scored three goals from an xG of 3.68, a modest under-performance against the chances created. The 17 shots, 13 on target and five corners point to a side that repeatedly found ways to threaten, even if the finishing fell just short of the quality estimate. Barle City, by contrast, scored once from an xG of 0.36, making the most of a rare opportunity: their only shot was on target, and it became Pablo Carrizo’s goal. The possession figures, 52% to 48% for Barle City, did not translate into much danger. Their 21 dribbles suggest plenty of individual progress, but with only one attempt at goal, the route from carrying the ball to testing the goalkeeper remained largely unexplored.

For Cold Stanley, the two quick goals after half-time established a cushion that the volume of chances had been threatening to produce. Barle City made the contest less comfortable with Pablo Carrizo’s 80th-minute finish, but Thomas Kane restored the two-goal margin five minutes later, with Raimundo Goulart providing the assist. The late sequence also brought two Cold Stanley yellow cards, while Barle City had been booked earlier through Junichi Seto. The final 3 - 1 reflected the gap in goal threat more clearly than the possession count: Barle City had more of the ball, while Cold Stanley did considerably more with the moments that mattered.