Straylegnod Vale 0 - 7 Eccley

Key Events:

• 18' Eccley Ousmane Sow scores

• 21' Yellow card to Eccley Jens Jensen

• 33' Eccley Domingo Rojas scores

• 45' Eccley Riccardo Bruno scores, assisted by Ousmane Sow

• 58' Yellow card to Eccley Riccardo Bruno

• 59' Red card to Straylegnod Vale Eduardo Pinto

• 69' Eccley Jesse Vos scores, assisted by Riccardo Bruno

• 73' Eccley Hermann Beyer scores, assisted by Edgar Juarez

• 79' Eccley Gerson Baessa scores, assisted by Jens Jensen

• 88' Eccley Jens Jensen scores, assisted by Hermann Beyer

• No Straylegnod Vale players recorded a rating of 7.0 or higher.

For all the scale of the result, Eccley did not monopolise the ball: possession was 52 per cent to 48, and pass accuracy was nearly level. The difference lay in what happened after possession became an attack. Eccley produced 17 shots on target, ten corners and seven goals, while Straylegnod Vale managed four attempts in total. Both sides committed five fouls, a rare point of statistical symmetry in a match otherwise inclined to make its own arrangements. Eccley’s three tackles against the hosts’ seven also underline that the visitors did not need to dominate every category to dominate the match. The scoreline was no narrow escape and no late flourish; it was a sustained Eccley performance, with a seven-goal margin that left the xG estimate looking comparatively restrained.