Deent United 5 - 0 Stand Rangers

Key Events:

• 20' Deent United Elmer Gonzalez scores, assisted by Luis Pinto
• 22' Deent United Luis Pinto scores, assisted by Elmer Gonzalez
• 32' Deent United Yann Yu scores, assisted by Xinping Boon
• 33' Yellow card to Deent United Elmer Gonzalez
• 55' Yellow card to Deent United Roger Clement
• 58' Deent United Xinping Boon scores, assisted by Roger Clement
• 84' Deent United Luis Pinto scores, assisted by Volker Stein

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Deent United scored five goals from 4.68 xG, a modest over-performance of 0.32 that sits comfortably within a day’s work for an attack that put 17 of its 21 shots on target. Stand Rangers finished without a goal from 0.26 xG, creating little enough threat that the gap between their estimate and their score tells no elaborate story. The larger tactical point is the volume: Deent United repeatedly made the visitors defend, and the three goals between the 20th and 32nd minutes turned that pressure into control. With possession only 53%-47%, this was not a matter of simply keeping the ball; it was a matter of making far more useful use of it.

The 5-0 scoreline was supported by the flow of chances rather than a handful of fortunate finishes. Stand Rangers had one shot, on target, and no corners; their 47% possession and 83% pass accuracy show that they were not wholly absent from the ball, but neither figure became sustained danger. Deent United also had no corners, an incidental statistic made rather less important by their 17 efforts on target. The two sides were close in pass accuracy and fouls, and their tackle counts differed by only one. The gulf lay in the decisive areas: shots, goals and the ability to turn attacking possession into repeated tests of the opposition.

• No Stand Rangers players reached a rating of 7.0.