Colington 5 - 4 Amertow

Key Events:

• 8' Yellow card to Amertow Ismaila Kouassi
• 9' Colington Ramo Sekulić scores, assisted by Klaus Wolf
• 22' Amertow Vladimir štimac scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 33' Yellow card to Amertow Adilson Pires
• 46' Yellow card to Colington Edson Tavares
• 49' Colington Cedric Lagarde scores, assisted by Tim van den Heuvel
• 52' Yellow card to Amertow Reinhold Bergmann
• 56' Amertow Adilson Pires scores, assisted by Klaus Jung
• 58' Colington Klaus Wolf scores, assisted by Tim van den Heuvel
• 77' Colington Klaus Wolf scores
• 80' Amertow Reinhold Bergmann scores, assisted by Bruno Rossi
• 82' Amertow Vladimir Petković scores, assisted by Reinhold Bergmann
• 86' Colington Gerard Meijer scores
• 87' Yellow card to Colington Gerard Meijer

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: Colington scored five from 5.78 xG, a little below the chance-quality estimate, while Amertow turned 1.95 xG into four goals, substantially outperforming theirs. The gap between the teams’ shot counts—26 to 10—and shots on target—21 to six—suggests Colington created the more sustained attacking pressure. Yet Amertow were unusually sharp with their limited opportunities, scoring four times from six efforts on target. The result therefore tells two stories at once: Colington had the volume and quality to justify the win, but their visitors made almost every opening count. The 49-51 possession split offers little evidence of control either way; this was less a contest of possession than of what each side did when it got near goal.

The final 5-4 score gives Colington the points, but not quite the quiet finish a side might hope for after scoring five. Amertow cut the deficit to one with goals at 80 and 82 minutes, turning a comfortable-looking margin into a live contest again. Gerard Meijer restored the cushion four minutes later, and his booking a minute after that supplied an oddly neat punctuation mark. Colington’s superior shot volume and xG point to a deserved victory; Amertow’s four goals explain why it never felt settled. Nine goals, one corner for the winners and eight for the defeated visitors: the match statistics appear to have attended different games, then agreed on the score.