Cortock City 0 - 5 Marksop Auck

The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gives Marksop Auck 4.24 xG against five goals, an over-performance of 0.76: clinical, though not a result that requires a great deal of explaining when 16 shots test the target. Cortock City produced 0.11 xG and no shots on target, so the gap between expected and actual goals was small on the hosts’ side and enormous in practical terms. Possession was 50-50, but the ball’s ownership did not translate into comparable threat. Marksop Auck had 18 shots to one, while the hosts’ eight corners offered no recorded shot on target to show for them. Equal possession, in this case, was a tidy figure attached to a decidedly unequal afternoon.

The first two goals arrived before the half-hour, with Scott Smith opening the scoring and Chi Sakai adding the second. After the break, Smith struck again at 50', Edgar Gomez made it four four minutes later, and Erik Otten completed the scoring at 75'. The goals came from four different phases of the match, and the visitors kept finding a route through despite the hosts matching them for possession and fouls. Cortock City did win more corners and complete more dribbles, but neither measure softened the central fact of the 0-5 score: Marksop Auck made far more of its attacks count.

Key Events:

• 10' Marksop Auck Scott Smith scores, assisted by Erik Otten
• 24' Marksop Auck Chi Sakai scores, assisted by Ahmed Coulibaly
• 36' Yellow card to Cortock City Friedrich Unger
• 47' Yellow card to Marksop Auck Edgar Gomez
• 50' Marksop Auck Scott Smith scores
• 54' Marksop Auck Edgar Gomez scores
• 75' Marksop Auck Erik Otten scores
• 87' Yellow card to Cortock City Rainer Müller

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis

The xG figures were 0.11 for Cortock City and 4.24 for Marksop Auck, compared with the final score of 0-5. The visitors scored 0.76 more goals than their estimate, while Cortock City scored none from a very limited chance total. The 18-1 shot count and 16-0 shots-on-target count underline the difference in attacking pressure; the five goals were not a lucky escape from a close contest. The shared possession figure tells a narrower story than the chance and shooting numbers: Cortock City had the ball, but Marksop Auck supplied the danger.

No Cortock City players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.