Key Town 1 - 5 Fard

Key Events:

• 9' Fard Michel Lemoine scores
• 22' Yellow card to Key Town Jorge Alvez
• 26' Fard Philippe Robert scores, assisted by Nilson Pires
• 30' Fard Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Seungwoo Jeong
• 59' Yellow card to Fard Michel Lemoine
• 61' Fard Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Nilson Pires
• 67' Yellow card to Fard Pedro Chagas
• 68' Key Town Branko Bartolić scores
• 69' Yellow card to Fard Philippe Robert
• 73' Yellow card to Fard Jorge Alvez
• 85' Yellow card to Fard Seungwoo Jeong
• 90' Fard Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Nilson Pires

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Fard scored five from an xG of 3.15, finishing well above the chance-quality estimate; Key Town scored once from 1.18 xG, a little below its estimate. The most telling gap was in the shooting: Fard put 12 of 13 attempts on target, while Key Town managed three from seven. That is not simply a story of clinical finishing, but of a visitors’ attack repeatedly making the goalkeeper work and a hosts’ attack producing fewer efforts on goal. Key Town held 54% possession and recorded 17 dribbles to Fard’s six, yet those measures did not translate into comparable threat. Fard needed less of the ball, not less of the match.

Key Town had no standout performers rated 7.0 or higher.

• Pedro Chagas (8.1) - Scored a hat-trick, including Fard’s final goal, and was the chief beneficiary of an attack that kept finding the target.
• Nilson Pires (7.5) - Supplied three assists, giving Fard’s scoring display a generous share of its supporting cast.

The scoreline was already 3-0 by the half-hour, with Michel Lemoine, Philippe Robert and Pedro Chagas putting Fard in command. Pedro Chagas added another after the break, and Branko Bartolić briefly gave Key Town a goal to show for its greater possession. The reply did not turn the contest: Fard restored the four-goal margin in the 90th minute, completing a 5-1 win.

There was a busy card count in the second half, with Fard receiving five yellow cards across the match and Key Town one; neither side received a red. But the dominant numbers were the ones aimed at goal: 12 shots on target for Fard, three for Key Town. For Key Town, control of the ball offered little consolation. Fard left with five goals, three assists from Nilson Pires, and a result whose arithmetic was more emphatic than its possession share.