Leganes Completed 61 More Passes. Cadiz Scored Four More Goals.

Leganes completed 367 passes at 86% and left the Cadiz CF with a 4-0 defeat. Cadiz completed 306 at 83% and scored in the 6th, 54th, 71st and 83rd minutes. The passing numbers and the scoreline were compiled in the same stadium on the same night; they describe two different matches.

The Ball Went One Way. The Box Went the Other.

The possession map reads 54% Leganes, 46% Cadiz, and it is the most misleading row on the sheet. Leganes spent their majority on passes that never threatened: one shot on target all night, from twelve attempts, five of them blocked. Cadiz took 23 shots, 17 from inside the box, and touched the ball in the opposition box 31 times to Leganes' 19.

The quality rows are not close. Expected goals finished 1.87 to 0.99. xG on target finished 4.37 to 0.04 — nine Cadiz shots on target carrying more than four expected goals, Leganes' single effort carrying almost none. Big chances: six to zero.

The duel columns explain how a team with less of the ball dominated the dangerous areas. Cadiz won 56 duels to 34, committed nine fouls to Leganes' seventeen, and made twelve interceptions to six. When the ball turned over, it turned over high, and it went forward.

Nothing Changed at the Break Except the Score

The half scopes say the first 45 minutes were honest competition: xG 0.73 to 0.66, possession 45-55, Cadiz two shots on target to Leganes' none. The second half was a different tier. Cadiz out-shot Leganes 13-6, put seven on target to one, and ran the xGOT column 3.53 to 0.04. Leganes kept passing at nearly the same rate — 140 completions after the break — and produced one effort on goal in 45 minutes of chasing the game.

Cordero Twice, and a Keeper With Almost Nothing to Do

Antonio Cordero scored in the 6th and 71st minutes, Vladyslav Kopotun added the second on 54, and Aimen Moueffek closed it on 83. The Cadiz keeper faced 0.04 xGOT and made one save. At the other end, the Leganes keeper faced 4.37 xGOT, made four saves, and finished at plus 0.37 goals prevented — the scoreline could plausibly have been worse.

What It Means

The win takes Cadiz to six points from seven games and 18th in LaLiga2, a first victory of the season after a run that read three defeats and a draw. Leganes sit ninth on ten points from seven, and a side that has now lost three of its last five needs to answer the same question this sheet poses: where is the ball going?