Stam United 1 - 6 Epsword City

Key Events:

• 8' Yellow card to Stam United Phillip Lewis
• 16' Yellow card to Stam United Seungwoo Jeong
• 18' Epsword City Amidou Yeo scores, assisted by Barry Stewart
• 27' Epsword City Hasan Hodžić scores
• 31' Stam United Nilson Pires scores
• 38' Epsword City Hasan Hodžić scores, assisted by Nick Jones
• 43' Yellow card to Epsword City Hasan Hodžić
• 45' Epsword City Giuseppe Pepe scores
• 51' Epsword City Amidou Yeo scores, assisted by Hasan Hodžić
• 69' Yellow card to Epsword City Jose Gonzalez
• 72' Epsword City Amidou Yeo scores
• 77' Yellow card to Stam United Pedro Chagas
• 78' Yellow card to Stam United Jorge Alvez

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Stam United 0.01 xG and Epsword City 3.84. The final score of 1-6 therefore saw both sides finish above their expected goals, but by very different margins: Stam United scored from an exceptionally slight chance-quality return, while Epsword City converted six from a strong, though smaller, expected total. The shot count clarifies the imbalance: Epsword City put 14 of 17 attempts on target, while Stam United managed none. More possession and six corners did not translate into a single recorded attempt for the hosts; Epsword City needed less of the ball, and made far more of the moments in which they had it.

• No standout performers rated 7.0 or higher were recorded for Stam United.

For Stam United, the central problem was not a lack of possession, corners or passing accuracy; it was that none of those measures produced a shot. Nilson Pires briefly made the score 2-1, but the wider attacking record offered little support for a sustained fightback. Four yellow cards also marked a difficult afternoon in which the hosts had plenty of the ball and little opportunity to use it meaningfully.

Epsword City were more direct in the outcome, if not necessarily in possession: their 45% share came with 17 attempts, 14 on target and six goals. The final 6-1 score is emphatic, and the gap between the sides’ shots makes it hard to mistake it for a freakish scoreline built on a handful of chances. Stam United found one goal; Epsword City found six, and left the possession statistics to keep the ball for them.