Walton City 0 - 5 Ington County

Key Events:

• 6' Yellow card to Ington County Victor Ajayi
• 10' Ington County Scott Nelson scores, assisted by Magne Kouassi
• 26' Ington County Zurab Beridze scores, assisted by Samuel Vila
• 35' Ington County Samuel Vila scores, assisted by Victor Ajayi
• 54' Ington County Magne Kouassi scores
• 68' Ington County Zurab Beridze scores
• 77' Yellow card to Ington County Luigi Mariani

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Ington County scored five from 5.18 xG, almost exactly in line with the quality of the chances created. The visitors’ 23 shots, including 19 on target, tell the story more plainly than their 47% possession: they repeatedly turned promising situations into attempts and kept Walton City’s defence under sustained pressure. Walton City had 0.96 xG and three shots on target from five attempts, but no goal; a modest shortfall rather than a case of chances being invented after the fact. The hosts held the ball more often and won five corners to Ington County’s one, yet those measures brought little change to the central pattern. The visitors were far more direct in the useful sense: their attacks ended with shots, and enough of those shots had real threat.

• No Walton City players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

For Walton City, the 0 - 5 defeat was not a matter of being starved of possession: the hosts had 53% of it, along with five corners and eight dribbles. The trouble was converting that activity into enough danger to trouble a side that put 19 efforts on target. Ington County scored twice in the opening 26 minutes, added another before half-time, then found two more after the break. That spread of goals left little room for a late change in the match’s direction. The visitors did not need to dominate every statistic; they dominated the one that tends to settle matters.