Swart Rangers 0 - 9 Cheackippleigh

Key Events:

• 7' Cheackippleigh Renato Lončar scores, assisted by Hao Chew
• 29' Cheackippleigh Luis Bejarano scores, assisted by Zhong Lau
• 32' Cheackippleigh Hao Chew scores, assisted by Luis Bejarano
• 33' Yellow card to Swart Rangers Regino Soares
• 34' Cheackippleigh Hao Chew scores, assisted by Insik Kwon
• 41' Cheackippleigh Yvon Robert scores, assisted by Hans Hansen
• 43' Yellow card to Swart Rangers Maximo Escudero
• 45' Yellow card to Swart Rangers Tiziano D'andrea
• 47' Yellow card to Cheackippleigh Hao Chew
• 57' Yellow card to Cheackippleigh Yvon Robert
• 60' Cheackippleigh Ricardo Perez scores, assisted by Zhong Lau
• 63' Cheackippleigh Hao Chew scores
• 71' Cheackippleigh Insik Kwon scores, assisted by Hao Chew
• 78' Yellow card to Cheackippleigh Ian White
• 86' Yellow card to Swart Rangers Giacomo Santoro
• 87' Cheackippleigh Ricardo Perez scores, assisted by Ian White

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Cheackippleigh 4.26 xG and Swart Rangers 0.51, against the actual score of 9-0. Cheackippleigh therefore converted well above the value of the chances their opportunities were estimated to represent, while Swart Rangers scored none from a small return. The shot count helps explain the scale of the result: Cheackippleigh had 18 attempts, with 16 on target, while Swart Rangers managed just two attempts, both on target. The visitors’ 52% possession was hardly a monopoly, but their superior pass accuracy and repeated accuracy in front of goal made possession share a rather modest measure of control. Nine goals from 4.26 xG is emphatic over-performance; the 16 shots on target show it was emphatic pressure, too.

For Swart Rangers, the 0-9 defeat was not a case of being edged out by a slight difference in the ball. They had the same number of corners as Cheackippleigh, but only two shots across the match, while the visitors kept producing attempts and putting them on target. Four yellow cards for the hosts, against three for the visitors, punctuated a difficult afternoon without changing its direction. There were no standout Swart Rangers performers rated 7.0 or higher.

Cheackippleigh leave with the full nine-goal margin, five different scorers and a hat-trick from Hao Chew. Their xG says the finishing ran unusually hot; the shot totals say they kept creating enough opportunities to make the result more than a freakish burst of conversion. At 0-9, the scoreline requires no additional decoration. The football had already supplied it.