Merthames Albion 0 - 4 Bordwith

Key Events:

• 25' Yellow card to Merthames Albion Michel Lemoine
• 30' Yellow card to Bordwith Richard Stone
• 31' Bordwith Ivan Cvetković scores, assisted by John Bailey
• 45' Yellow card to Merthames Albion Branko Bartolić
• 53' Bordwith Paul Dupont scores, assisted by Eckhard Köhler
• 61' Bordwith Julio Cortes scores
• 61' Yellow card to Merthames Albion Michael Brown
• 80' Bordwith John Bailey scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Merthames Albion finished with 0 goals from 1.71 xG, while Bordwith scored 4 from 3.73 xG. The hosts therefore fell short of the chances their total suggests, while Bordwith converted slightly more than the estimate anticipated. The shot count helps explain how the gap opened: Merthames Albion had 8 attempts, 6 on target, against Bordwith’s 16 attempts and 14 on target. The visitors also won 8 corners to Merthames Albion’s 1, a steady supply of attacking situations. Merthames Albion’s 55% possession and 83% pass accuracy did not translate into enough clear outcomes; Bordwith’s 45% possession was accompanied by far more efforts directed on goal. The numbers point to a match in which control of the ball and control of the danger were different jobs, and Bordwith handled the second one better.

No Merthames Albion players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

The match’s defining spell began with Ivan Cvetković’s 31st-minute opener, assisted by John Bailey, and continued after the break when Paul Dupont finished Eckhard Köhler’s assist. Julio Cortes added a third in the 61st minute, and John Bailey completed the scoring in the 80th. Merthames Albion’s three yellow cards and 16 fouls point to a difficult afternoon without offering a route back into the contest. Bordwith, meanwhile, made its greater volume of shots and corners count.

A 4-0 scoreline leaves little room for ambiguity: Bordwith earned a decisive win, and the 14 shots on target made it hard for the result to look accidental. Merthames Albion did keep possession and produced six efforts on target, but the gap between those figures and the final score tells the story of the afternoon. Bordwith were more threatening, finished four times, and left the hosts with the less satisfying sort of possession: plenty of it, and no goals.