Salsey Town 4 - 3 Fard

Key Events:

• 14' Yellow card to Fard Seungwoo Jeong
• 23' Yellow card to Salsey Town Lindomar Da Silva
• 25' Yellow card to Fard Phillip Lewis
• 26' Yellow card to Fard Michel Lemoine
• 29' Fard Jorge Alvez scores
• 41' Fard Pedro Chagas scores, assisted by Philippe Robert
• 60' Salsey Town Kimoon Jung scores, assisted by Xinping Boon
• 62' Salsey Town Mustapha Paul scores
• 72' Salsey Town Xinping Boon scores
• 73' Yellow card to Fard Jorge Alvez
• 74' Fard Phillip Lewis scores, assisted by Michel Lemoine
• 89' Salsey Town Josef Valenti scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate put Salsey Town at 4.78 xG and Fard at 0.96. The hosts scored four from that larger expected return, a little below the estimate, while Fard scored three from fewer than one expected goal, a substantial over-performance that made the final 4 - 3 much tighter than the underlying chances implied. Salsey Town had 22 shots, with 17 on target, against six shots and two on target for Fard. That is a considerable volume advantage, even if possession was nearly even at 51% to 49%. Fard were markedly efficient when opportunities came; Salsey Town created enough pressure to recover from 0 - 2 and keep creating after the visitors’ 74th-minute reply. The difference was not territorial dominance so much as the hosts repeatedly finding ways to turn their greater attacking volume into goals.

• No Fard players reached a rating of 7.0 or higher.

The cards gave the first half a stop-start edge, with Fard collecting three yellows before the break and adding another after the comeback had begun. Their two first-half goals offered a striking return from limited shooting, but the hosts gradually made the volume count: three goals between the 60th and 72nd minutes flipped the match before Phillip Lewis restored the visitors’ threat. Josef Valenti’s 89th-minute goal then supplied the decisive answer. Salsey Town had to work for the result, and Fard made them work far harder than the chance figures alone would have predicted.