Maincey City 5 - 0 New Mill United

Key Events:

• 16' Yellow card to Maincey City Francisco De Castro
• 27' Yellow card to New Mill United Pablo Delgado
• 29' Maincey City Carlos Borges scores, assisted by Eric Lin
• 34' Maincey City Artur Silva scores
• 35' Yellow card to Maincey City Carlos Borges
• 40' Maincey City Carlos Borges scores
• 48' Maincey City Mark Hudson scores, assisted by Emile Kone
• 52' Yellow card to New Mill United Milorad Šimić
• 72' Maincey City Mark Hudson scores, assisted by Eric Lin

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Maincey City scored five from an xG of 2.3, substantially outperforming the chance-quality estimate. Seven of their 12 shots were on target, and the goals arrived in a concentrated spell before the break before Mark Hudson added to the lead early in the second half. New Mill United finished with an xG of 0.01 and no shots, so their 11 corners never became a meaningful route to a goal. Possession was relatively close at 53%-47%, but the visitors could keep the ball without testing the goalkeeper; the difference was less territory than the ability to turn attacking moments into attempts and goals. A five-goal return from 2.3 xG points to unusually sharp finishing, while the visitors’ near-zero figure reflects a day with almost no threat at all.

• No standout performers rated 7.0 or higher were recorded for New Mill United.

The result was settled by Maincey City’s finishing and the visitors’ inability to turn possession or corners into a shot. The card count was even, as were the pass-accuracy figures, but those similarities offered little comfort to New Mill United once the scoring began. Hudson and Borges supplied four goals between them, while Lin assisted twice; the match’s most striking imbalance was not in the ball or the disciplinary ledger, but in what each side managed to do with its attacks. Maincey City took a 5-0 win from a game in which the visitors had 11 corners and still never registered a shot. One statistic had plenty of company; the other did not.