Tidge Stanley 1 - 3 Preweston

Key Events:

• 17' Yellow card to Tidge Stanley Seungwoo Jeong
• 34' Preweston Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Philippe Robert
• 44' Yellow card to Preweston Seungwoo Jeong
• 67' Preweston Philippe Robert scores, assisted by Nilson Pires
• 68' Tidge Stanley Allan Carroll scores, assisted by Philippe Robert
• 85' Preweston Zdravko Ivanišević scores, assisted by Seungwoo Jeong

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis

The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Tidge Stanley 1.28 xG and Preweston 1.75. Against those figures, Tidge Stanley scored once, 0.28 below expectation, while Preweston scored three times, 1.25 above. The visitors’ eight shots, six on target and seven corners supplied a broader attacking platform than the hosts’ five attempts and three corners; Tidge Stanley, for their part, were accurate with every shot. The difference, then, was not that the hosts failed to test the goal, but that Preweston converted their opportunities with considerably more reward. Their two-goal margin exceeded the modest xG gap, a reminder that chance quality estimates the opportunities rather than obliging the match to follow its paperwork.

Preweston had 58% possession and better pass accuracy, 84% to 81%, while also recording more dribbles, 13 to eight. Those figures point to greater control and more successful forward movement, though not a procession: both sides made seven tackles, and Tidge Stanley kept all five of their shots on target. The pivotal stretch came after the visitors’ second goal. Allan Carroll replied for Tidge Stanley just a minute later, restoring some uncertainty, but Zdravko Ivanišević settled the result in the 85th minute. The hosts had made the game competitive again; Preweston made sure it did not stay that way.

• No Tidge Stanley players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.