Hornea Park 0 - 4 North Villa

Key Events:

• 14' Yellow card to Hornea Park Pedro Alves
• 26' North Villa Gabriel Gutierrez scores
• 49' Yellow card to North Villa Sukwon Im
• 50' Yellow card to North Villa Gabriel Gutierrez
• 61' North Villa Sukwon Im scores
• 70' North Villa Sukwon Im scores, assisted by Michael Kanga
• 78' North Villa Michael Kanga scores

Expected Goals (xG) Analysis: North Villa’s 6.37 xG against a final total of four goals points to a side that created chances at a striking rate, even if it did not convert every opportunity the estimate suggests. The 29 shots, including 23 on target, make the pressure plain: this was not a scoreline assembled from a handful of fortunate breaks. Hornea Park’s 0.76 xG and three shots, all on target, show a much smaller attacking return. The hosts kept 53% possession and completed 85% of their passes, but those figures did not translate into enough threatening chances. North Villa had less of the ball and considerably more of the match’s attacking substance.

• No Hornea Park players reached a rating of 7.0.

The progression of the score gave North Villa a 1-0 lead at the interval’s approach, then three more goals after the break. Sukwon Im struck in the 61st minute and again in the 70th, with Michael Kanga providing the assist for the second of those goals before adding one himself eight minutes later. The sequence made the eventual margin decisive, while the shot count suggests North Villa had been applying pressure well beyond the moments that produced goals.

Hornea Park’s possession and passing accuracy offer a small measure of what the hosts did manage: they kept the ball and completed passes, but made only three attempts. North Villa, meanwhile, recorded 12 tackles to Hornea Park’s seven and turned its 47% possession into a 4-0 win. The figures are not a mystery so much as a reminder that possession is a measure of who has the ball, not of what they do with it. North Villa left with the points, four goals and a sizeable xG surplus still unexplored.