Seven Goals, 3.94 Expected: Plymouth's Maths Checks Out
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi arrived with a plan and left with a 7-0 defeat, as Plymouth Argyle turned 30 shots into a scoreline that flattered nobody.
The stakes were modest on paper: a Europa League night, a Finnish side with six teenagers and a loan striker making his first start. What followed was 73 per cent possession, 30 shots, 17 on target and 11 corners against two shots at the other end. Pablo Mainz scored three, Péter Bognár made two more and covered 12.7km doing it, and André Luiz Audi and Dejan Dausch added one each.
Antonio Segarra went off injured on 29 minutes; Çınar Yöntem came on and the machine kept running. Mike Hughes, on at 80, scored. Gabriel Pelegrín, on at 85, assisted. Aureli took four shots and scored none, which is the only figure on the sheet that did not behave. Seven is the number; 3.94 expected goals is the quieter one.