Ountnal Park 0 - 4 Leigh United

Key Events:

• 3' Yellow card to Ountnal Park Michel Lemoine
• 9' Yellow card to Leigh United Anibal Falcon
• 15' Yellow card to Leigh United Phillip Thomas
• 18' Leigh United Stanley Clark scores
• 34' Leigh United John Stuart scores, assisted by Phillip Thomas
• 39' Yellow card to Ountnal Park Jorge Alvez
• 48' Leigh United Marco Baldini scores
• 78' Yellow card to Ountnal Park Timothy Morgan
• 87' Leigh United Sada Muramatsu scores, assisted by Stanley Clark

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate put Ountnal Park at 0.01 xG and Leigh United at 4.23. Against the actual 0-4 score, Leigh United finished just below the opportunities their xG suggests they created, while Ountnal Park came close to their already slender estimate by failing to record a shot. The visitors’ 18 attempts, including 16 on target, give the clearest account of the attacking imbalance; the hosts’ eight corners and 15 dribbles did not translate into a single effort on goal. Possession was level, but possession alone proved a rather ceremonial statistic when one side supplied all the shots.

Ountnal Park did have more tackles, 13 to eight, and won two more corners than Leigh United. Those figures show activity, but not a route back into the match: by half-time the visitors had scored twice, and Marco Baldini added a third three minutes after the restart. Ountnal Park were not short of the ball or effort in individual measures; they were short of attempts, which is the sort of shortage a team cannot solve by improving its corner count alone.

Ountnal Park: No standout performers rated 7.0 or higher.

Leigh United:

• Stanley Clark (7.3) - Scored the opener and assisted Sada Muramatsu for the fourth.