Melsorke Town 5 - 3 Chith Town

Key Events:

• 16' Yellow card to Melsorke Town Daniel Franco
• 18' Chith Town John Bailey scores
• 23' Melsorke Town Bryan Nathan scores
• 24' Yellow card to Melsorke Town Bryan Nathan
• 27' Yellow card to Melsorke Town Bruno Rossi
• 33' Chith Town Ivan Cvetković scores, assisted by Eckhard Köhler
• 34' Melsorke Town Ahmed Popović scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 45' Melsorke Town Xinping Boon scores, assisted by Ahmed Popović
• 50' Melsorke Town Xinping Boon scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 56' Yellow card to Melsorke Town Giovanni Fiore
• 59' Chith Town Marcel Durand scores, assisted by Eckhard Köhler
• 71' Melsorke Town Xinping Boon scores, assisted by Ahmed Popović
• 85' Yellow card to Chith Town John Bailey

Melsorke Town recovered each time Chith Town threatened to make the contest uncomfortable, and their five-goal tally was enough to keep the visitors’ three accurate finishes from changing the outcome. The hosts’ four yellow cards tell a slightly more untidy story: they conceded more fouls than Chith Town and had to spend plenty of the evening defending, yet still found the sharper answer in front of goal. Chith Town’s 53% possession and 11 dribbles brought activity, but only five attempts; Melsorke Town, with four dribbles and 47% possession, made its fewer moments on the ball count with remarkable efficiency. In an 5-3 match, the modest detail that nine of the hosts’ 11 shots were on target is almost as revealing as the hat-trick: Melsorke Town were not simply busy, but unusually precise.