Bidge Town 1 - 5 Walewquay

Key Events:

• 5' Yellow card to Walewquay Vladimir štimac
• 9' Walewquay Hagi Kataoka scores, assisted by Mladen Lukić
• 18' Yellow card to Bidge Town Branko Bartolić
• 36' Bidge Town Jorge Alvez scores
• 57' Walewquay Hagi Kataoka scores, assisted by Valentin Atanasov
• 64' Yellow card to Bidge Town Michel Lemoine
• 68' Walewquay Lindomar Da Silva scores, assisted by Valentin Atanasov
• 73' Walewquay Lindomar Da Silva scores
• 80' Walewquay Lindomar Da Silva scores, assisted by Mladen Lukić

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate gave Bidge Town 0.79 xG and Walewquay 7.53. The hosts’ single goal was a modest overperformance against that estimate, while the visitors’ five goals fell short of the chances their xG suggests they created. That gap is not evidence of a close contest: Walewquay registered 33 shots, with 28 on target, while Bidge Town managed three, all on target. The visitors turned a substantial volume of attacking opportunities into a five-goal return; the xG figure suggests they might have scored more. Bidge Town made its limited output count once, but the balance of chances left little room for that goal to change the broader picture.

The numbers make the 1-5 result clear without requiring much assistance from the possession figures, which were nearly even. Walewquay had only a narrow edge in possession and pass accuracy, but its overwhelming lead in shots and shots on target points to the more consequential difference: the visitors repeatedly turned possession into attempts, while Bidge Town had very few chances to build an answer. The fouls were level, and the hosts recorded more tackles, but neither detail altered the attacking arithmetic.

For Bidge Town, Jorge Alvez’s 36th-minute goal offered a brief interruption to the visitors’ lead, not a change in the pattern suggested by the shot count. Walewquay resumed scoring after the interval, then added three goals from Lindomar Da Silva between the 68th and 80th minutes. A 1-5 defeat is emphatic; here, it also came with enough chances for the winning margin to have been larger.