Southam Athletic 2 - 4 Marnemes Rovers

Key Events:

• 14' Yellow card to Southam Athletic Phillip Lewis
• 16' Yellow card to Southam Athletic Nilson Pires
• 48' Marnemes Rovers Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Pedro Chagas
• 53' Southam Athletic Willi Schneider scores, assisted by Jorge Alvez
• 58' Yellow card to Marnemes Rovers Seungwoo Jeong
• 60' Yellow card to Southam Athletic Pedro Chagas
• 65' Marnemes Rovers Philippe Robert scores, assisted by Nilson Pires
• 67' Southam Athletic Willi Schneider scores
• 71' Yellow card to Southam Athletic Philippe Robert
• 76' Marnemes Rovers Nilson Pires scores, assisted by Philippe Robert
• 90' Marnemes Rovers Michel Lemoine scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Marnemes Rovers’ 3.09 xG was well above Southam Athletic’s 1.64, and the final 4-2 score broadly followed that gap in chance quality. The visitors scored four from 3.09 xG, a modest over-performance; Southam scored twice from 1.64, also finishing slightly above expectation. The shot totals help explain the difference: Marnemes registered 14 attempts, with 11 on target, while Southam managed seven shots and put six on target. Southam were efficient when they did find the target, but Marnemes created more opportunities and applied pressure more often. The visitors’ 57% possession and 83% pass accuracy, compared with 43% and 81% for the hosts, point to a greater share of the ball and a small edge in keeping it moving. Southam’s 18 fouls and four yellow cards, against seven fouls and one yellow for Marnemes, suggest the hosts spent more of the contest defending under strain.

Southam’s two goals brought the score back level at 1-1 and then 2-2, but neither equaliser held for long: Marnemes replied with goals in the 65th and 76th minutes, before Michel Lemoine added the fourth in the 90th. That sequence is the clearest account of the match’s balance. Southam showed enough threat to keep the contest alive, and Willi Schneider supplied both of their goals, but Marnemes had the greater volume of chances and the stronger finish across the evening. The visitors leave with a two-goal win; the hosts, with a brace and a few more cautions than they would have preferred.

Southam Athletic

• Willi Schneider (7.6) - Scored both Southam goals and gave the hosts a route back into the contest.

Marnemes Rovers

• Nilson Pires (8.1) - Scored twice and assisted Philippe Robert, contributing directly to three of the visitors’ four goals.
• Philippe Robert (7.3) - Scored once and provided the assist for Nilson Pires’s second goal.