Lymorourlow City 2 - 3 Plytoning Wanderers

Key Events:

• 7' Lymorourlow City Pedro Chagas scores
• 14' Plytoning Wanderers Willi Schneider scores
• 16' Yellow card to Plytoning Wanderers Zdravko Ivanišević
• 30' Plytoning Wanderers Zdravko Ivanišević scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas
• 60' Yellow card to Plytoning Wanderers Philippe Robert
• 74' Yellow card to Plytoning Wanderers Nilson Pires
• 79' Yellow card to Plytoning Wanderers Pedro Chagas
• 80' Lymorourlow City Pedro Chagas scores
• 87' Plytoning Wanderers Philippe Robert scores, assisted by Willi Schneider

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: The Gazzetta chance-quality estimate put Lymorourlow City at 3.22 xG and Plytoning Wanderers at 1.65. Against those figures, the hosts scored twice from chances worth more than three goals in aggregate, while the visitors scored three from a lower-quality total. That is a substantial difference in finishing outcomes: Lymorourlow City generated the stronger body of chances, but Plytoning Wanderers converted enough of theirs to win. The shot counts sharpen the contrast—17 to seven, with ten home efforts and six away efforts on target—while the scoreline records the more decisive measure.

The balance of the numbers makes the result an awkward one for Lymorourlow City to file away. The hosts had the ball more often, passed it with slightly greater accuracy, won twice as many corners and attempted ten more shots. None of those advantages was imaginary; none became a third goal. Plytoning Wanderers, meanwhile, had six shots on target from seven attempts and came away with three goals, an unusually direct return on limited volume.

The visitors’ four yellow cards and 18 fouls show a far more stop-start contribution to the afternoon than the hosts’ six fouls and no bookings. Yet Plytoning Wanderers kept enough of their limited attacking opportunities intact to settle a game that the underlying chance estimate favoured the other way. Lymorourlow City found two replies through Pedro Chagas, but the decisive score arrived from Philippe Robert in the 87th minute, assisted by Willi Schneider. A 2-3 defeat is the final arithmetic; the more uncomfortable detail for the hosts is that they did enough to expect a better one.