Houth Villa 1 - 3 Basin Athletic

Key Events:

• 26' Basin Athletic Phillip Lewis scores
• 32' Basin Athletic Giuseppe Conte scores, assisted by Michael Brown
• 45' Basin Athletic Allan Carroll scores, assisted by Michel Lemoine
• 47' Yellow card to Houth Villa Philippe Robert
• 49' Yellow card to Houth Villa Michael Brown
• 74' Houth Villa Michel Lemoine scores, assisted by Phillip Lewis

No players from either side recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

For Houth Villa, the late response from Michel Lemoine at 74' supplied a goal and a measure of resistance, but it came after the match’s defining passage had already done its work. The hosts had enough attacking activity to suggest a closer contest was available: they matched the visitors’ possession, won the same number of corners and put more attempts on target. Yet the three goals conceded before the break left little room for those advantages to alter the shape of the result. Two yellow cards followed soon after half-time, another sign of a difficult stretch rather than a route back into the match.

Basin Athletic leave with a 3-1 win built on a sharp burst of finishing, not overwhelming statistical control. Their ten tackles to Houth Villa’s seven helped them do enough without dominating the ball, and their slightly lower xG makes the margin a story of conversion as much as creation. The visitors took their opportunities; the hosts created enough to expect more and found only one. Football occasionally awards the more efficient account, even when the other side has the better figures in the ledger.