Brand Forest 0 - 5 Shilmswoot

Key Events:

• 3' Shilmswoot Dimitar Velinov scores, assisted by Matthew Harrison
• 16' Shilmswoot Alex Milani scores, assisted by Dimitar Velinov
• 25' Yellow card to Shilmswoot Kenneth Lavoie
• 26' Shilmswoot Alex Milani scores, assisted by Kenneth Lavoie
• 34' Yellow card to Brand Forest Bruno Rossi
• 41' Yellow card to Brand Forest Xinping Boon
• 45' Yellow card to Shilmswoot Kyungsoo Chae
• 54' Shilmswoot Kenneth Lavoie scores
• 54' Yellow card to Shilmswoot Henry Smith
• 81' Shilmswoot Alex Milani scores, assisted by Dimitar Velinov

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Shilmswoot scored five from 4.73 xG, a slight overperformance that fits a side which repeatedly turned promising chances into goals. Brand Forest finished with 0.26 xG and no goals; the single shot, which was on target, was not enough to change the shape of the contest. The contrast was stark: Brand Forest held 55% possession and matched Shilmswoot on pass accuracy at 83%, but Shilmswoot produced 20 shots, 18 on target. Possession gave the hosts more of the ball, not more of the threat. The early goals also made the visitors’ task simpler: after going 3-0 up by the 26th minute, they could keep finding chances while Brand Forest had to chase a game already running away.

No Brand Forest player recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

The final score was 0-5, and the underlying numbers offer little grounds to call it an accident: Shilmswoot led the match by a wide margin in shots and created enough quality to justify a commanding win. Brand Forest did keep the ball more often, but one attempt on target made that advantage mostly ceremonial. The visitors’ five goals came from different moments in the match, with the early burst establishing control and Alex Milani completing his hat-trick late. For Brand Forest, the task was not simply to recover from a bad start; it was to find a way into a contest in which Shilmswoot kept generating danger. They never found one.