Losend Bar 2 - 3 Rughbor Albion

Key Events:

• 8' Yellow card to Rughbor Albion Martin Dimitrov
• 24' Rughbor Albion Edhem Ostojić scores, assisted by Dean Boyd
• 26' Rughbor Albion Dean Boyd scores, assisted by Martin Dimitrov
• 32' Rughbor Albion Casimiro Faria scores, assisted by Edhem Ostojić
• 41' Yellow card to Rughbor Albion Stephen Hamilton
• 55' Yellow card to Rughbor Albion Pascal Roux
• 66' Losend Bar Ken Burton scores, assisted by Matthew Owens
• 71' Yellow card to Rughbor Albion an unnamed player
• 71' Losend Bar Matthew Owens scores, assisted by Warren Hill
• 78' Yellow card to Losend Bar Ken Burton
• 81' Yellow card to Rughbor Albion Edhem Ostojić

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Rughbor Albion’s 4.97 xG against three goals points to a substantial under-performance by the visitors, though not one that threatened to alter the result: they still created far more than Losend Bar, whose two goals came from only 1.15 xG. The shot count was 21-5, with 19 of Rughbor Albion’s efforts on target, compared with four for Losend Bar. That is an emphatic difference in attacking volume, even if the visitors left several good chances unconverted. Losend Bar had 54% possession, but the ball’s ownership did not translate into a comparable supply of opportunities. Rughbor Albion were more direct in the most consequential sense: they repeatedly tested the goal and built a three-goal lead by the 32nd minute. The hosts’ two second-half goals made the final stretch less comfortable than the visitors’ earlier advantage suggested, but the xG gap says the late recovery did not erase the difference in chance creation.

Losend Bar showed some resilience after falling three behind, and the final score reflects that response as well as Rughbor Albion’s commanding start. The hosts had more of the possession and made their five shots count twice; the visitors supplied the much greater volume of danger, but did not turn their 4.97 xG into a result as wide as the chances suggested. Rughbor Albion leave with the 3-2 win, while Losend Bar can point to a late rally without mistaking it for control of the afternoon.

• Pass Accuracy%: 82%-80%
• Tackles: 5-4