English
Port Vale Stuns Exeter City at Home
Exeter, Devon – In a match held at St James Park, Port Vale secured a convincing victory over Exeter City in a League One encounter. The visiting team maximized their opportunities, demonstrating great effectiveness in front of goal.
Port Vale opened the scoring early in the 4th minute, with a goal by R. Paton assisted by G. Byers. Despite Exeter City’s dominance in ball possession (70%), Port Vale defended solidly and counter-attacked dangerously. In the 45th minute, D. Cole extended the lead for the visitors, assisted by R. Paton, just before halftime.
Exeter City attempted to react in the second half, but encountered a well-organized Port Vale defense. The home team generated a total of 10 shots, 4 of which were on target, but failed to beat the visiting goalkeeper. The match was characterized by a high number of fouls (14 by Port Vale and 6 by Exeter City) and a few yellow cards, two for Port Vale (C. Humphreys and L. Gordon) and one for Exeter City (J. Doyle-Hayes). Ultimately, the match ended with the result Exeter City zero and Port Vale two.
Despite Exeter City’s territorial advantage and greater number of shots, Port Vale proved more effective in the key areas, securing an important away win.
Substitutions exeter city: at minute 11 J. Aitchison came in and E. Francis went out., at minute 71 J. Doyle-Hayes came in and R. Cole went out., at minute 71 S. Cox came in and J. Wareham went out., at minute 85 E. Turns came in and K. Wilson went out.
Substitutions port vale: at minute 66 R. Paton came in and D. Brown went out., at minute 70 B. Heneghan came in and J. Debrah went out., at minute 77 B. Garrity came in and F. Ojo went out., at minute 78 D. Cole came in and R. Curtis went out.
The teams lined up as follows:
Exeter City
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