Mity City 1 - 4 Pontingbough

Key Events:

• 10' Yellow card to Pontingbough Xinping Boon
• 11' Yellow card to Mity City Fernando Cabral
• 16' Mity City Neil Parsons scores, assisted by Gaoussou Yao
• 19' Pontingbough Carlos Barrera scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 60' Pontingbough Carlos Barrera scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 69' Yellow card to Mity City Alberto Semedo
• 74' Pontingbough Carlos Barrera scores
• 76' Yellow card to Pontingbough Douglas Ali
• 88' Pontingbough Douglas Ali scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Mity City recorded 3.12 xG but scored once, a substantial underperformance that turned a promising attacking return into a lopsided defeat. Pontingbough scored four from 3.39 xG, exceeding its estimate by a much smaller margin while converting chances at a decisive rate. The hosts’ 55% possession, 16 shots and six corners point to plenty of attacking activity; the visitors’ 13 shots on target from 14 attempts tell a more pointed story about accuracy. Pontingbough did not need to control the ball for long stretches to keep finding the target, and its 11 tackles compared with Mity City’s five suggest a sharper edge in the work of regaining possession. The estimates describe a match with chances at both ends, not one in which the scoreline arrived from nowhere.

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

The early exchange briefly made the afternoon look more evenly balanced: Neil Parsons put Mity City ahead in the 16th minute, and Carlos Barrera levelled three minutes later. After that, Pontingbough steadily turned its superior accuracy into distance on the scoreboard. Barrera struck again in the 60th minute, completed his hat-trick in the 74th, and Douglas Ali added the fourth in the 88th. Mity City had the ball and enough attempts to make a contest of it, but Pontingbough left with a 4-1 win by putting far more of those attempts on target—and, more importantly, beyond the goalkeeper.