Budleby Lod 0 - 5 Shord City

The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Budleby Lod 1.26 xG and Shord City 2.6, so the 0-5 result went well beyond the expected-goals balance. Budleby Lod finished all five of their shots on target without scoring; Shord City put nine of 12 shots on target and converted five. That points to a stark difference in finishing, not simply a difference in territory: possession was 50-50, but the visitors were far more effective when attacks reached the decisive stage. Their two goals in the opening 21 minutes set the terms, and further strikes in the 38th, 57th and 83rd made the gap impossible to disguise.

The numbers offer Budleby Lod little consolation, though they do show that the hosts had attempts and shared the ball rather than disappearing from the contest entirely. Their five shots on target, against Shord City’s nine, came with only two corners to the visitors’ five; the visitors also made 10 tackles to the hosts’ four. Shord City finished with five goals from 2.6 xG, an overperformance of 2.4, while Budleby Lod fell 1.26 goals short of their estimate. The visitors’ finishing was exceptional by that measure, and the hosts’ inability to turn any of their own on-target efforts into a goal was the other half of a match whose final margin was emphatic.

Key Events:

• 14' Shord City Pedro Fernandez scores, assisted by Zdravko Ivanišević

• 21' Shord City Luciano Martins scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis

• 32' Yellow card to Budleby Lod Carlos Monteiro

• 38' Shord City Michael Brown scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis

• 57' Shord City Luciano Martins scores, assisted by Allan Carroll

• 79' Yellow card to Budleby Lod Luis Cedeño

• 83' Shord City Pedro Fernandez scores

• 85' Yellow card to Shord City Zdravko Ivanišević

• No standout performers rated 7.0 or higher recorded for Budleby Lod.