Earwood Park 3 - 4 Mallingath

Key Events:

• 4' Earwood Park Michel Lemoine scores
• 12' Mallingath Xinping Boon scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 16' Yellow card to Mallingath Friedrich Unger
• 24' Earwood Park Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez
• 35' Mallingath Luis Pinto scores, assisted by Lindomar Da Silva
• 41' Earwood Park Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas
• 45' Yellow card to Earwood Park Pedro Chagas
• 57' Yellow card to Mallingath Luca Colombo
• 61' Yellow card to Earwood Park Michel Lemoine
• 70' Yellow card to Earwood Park Allan Carroll
• 75' Mallingath Luis Pinto scores, assisted by Weijie Hong
• 88' Mallingath Luca Colombo scores, assisted by Friedrich Unger

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis

Earwood Park scored three goals from 2.58 xG, finishing 0.42 above its chance-quality estimate. Mallingath scored four from 3.63 xG, an over-performance of 0.37. Both sides converted a little more than the chances suggested, so the scoreline was not a case of one attack routinely wasting its work; the key difference was that Mallingath created more of it. The visitors had 18 shots to Earwood Park’s 12, 12 on target to nine, and seven corners to two. That larger supply of attempts and set-piece opportunities helps explain how Mallingath could keep answering Earwood Park’s goals and still find the decisive one late on. Earwood Park’s efficiency kept the game level in ambition, if not in volume.

Earwood Park

• Nilson Pires (7.6) - Scored twice, giving Earwood Park repeated answers as the lead swung.

Mallingath

• Luis Pinto (7.6) - His two goals matched Pires’s contribution and helped keep Mallingath’s attack on terms.

The sequence of goals made this a genuinely close result, even as Mallingath’s shot count and xG gave the visitors a measurable edge. Earwood Park led three times in the scoring story only in the broad sense of repeatedly getting itself in front; each time Mallingath found a response, and the 75th-minute strike restored the visitors’ advantage. Earwood Park kept pressing, but the final goal at 88 minutes left too little time to produce another reply.

Mallingath’s win came from turning a higher share of the match’s attacking traffic into enough goals, rather than from shutting Earwood Park out. The hosts scored three and had nine efforts on target, while the visitors’ 12 on-target shots and seven corners gave them more routes into the contest. With two goals apiece, Pires and Pinto supplied the clearest individual marks; the late finish from Luca Colombo completed a game that had already offered both sides ample evidence that a lead is a temporary arrangement.