Hortlen 7 - 0 Shord City

Key Events:

• 3' Yellow card to Shord City Jorge Alvez
• 8' Hortlen Mahi Benie scores, assisted by Emir Muharemović
• 15' Hortlen Mahi Benie scores
• 15' Yellow card to Shord City Zdravko Ivanišević
• 18' Hortlen Emir Muharemović scores, assisted by Mahi Benie
• 25' Yellow card to Shord City Willi Schneider
• 26' Yellow card to Shord City Michael Brown
• 44' Hortlen Mahi Benie scores, assisted by Helmut Schilling
• 45' Hortlen Emir Muharemović scores
• 65' Hortlen Maya Ada scores
• 71' Hortlen Jan Visser scores, assisted by Helmut Schilling
• 86' Yellow card to Hortlen Maya Ada
• 90' Yellow card to Hortlen Emir Muharemović

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Hortlen’s seven goals came from 3.7 xG, an over-performance of 3.3 goals: a ruthless return from 17 shots, 13 of them on target. The estimate suggests the scoreline stretched well beyond the chances’ expected yield, even as the finishing repeatedly found its mark. Shord City recorded 0.01 xG and no shots, leaving no attacking attempt to trouble Hortlen. Possession was relatively close at 53%-47%, but the difference in threat was not: Hortlen had nine corners to two and won 15 tackles to Shord City’s five. The visitors had the ball often enough to make the possession figure respectable, but not the route to goal.

Hortlen’s opening goal arrived in the eighth minute, and Benie doubled the lead before the quarter-hour had passed. Muharemović made it three in the 18th minute; the visitors’ four first-half bookings, including two in quick succession, offered a measure of the pressure they were under. Benie struck again just before half-time, and Muharemović added another in the 45th minute, sending Hortlen into the break 5-0 ahead. The second half brought two more goals rather than a change of direction: Maya Ada scored in the 65th minute, then Jan Visser finished the scoring six minutes later. Hortlen’s two late bookings were the only blemish on an otherwise emphatic afternoon. The final count was seven Hortlen goals, none for Shord City, and a match that had been effectively settled well before its closing stages.