Crewe 0 Sunderland 4: Story of the night following Terell Thomas own goal, Ross Stewart double and Leon Dajaku strike
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After a bit of a shaky start, the Black Cats took a two-goal lead before half-time following a Terrell Thomas own goal and Ross Stewart header.
Stewart added his second goal of the match from a corner after the break, before substitute Leon Dajaku netted a fourth.
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Hide AdThe result means Lee Johnson’s side have moved up to second in the table, and have two games in hand on Plymouth ahead of them.
Here’s how the game played out.
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RECAP: Crewe 0 Sunderland 4 (Thomas, OG, 25) (Stewart, 32, 55) (Dajaku, 73)
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Hoffmann, Winchester, Flanagan, Doyle, Cirkin (Hume, 65), O’Nien, Neil, McGeady (Wright, 75), Pritchard (Dajaku, 58), O’Brien, Stewart
- Subs: Burge, Younger, Wright, Hume, Dajaku, Wearne, Harris
- Crewe XI: Jaaskelainen, Ramsey, Thomas, Offord, Daniels, McFadzean, Murphy, Long (Gomes, 60), Robertson, Bennett (Kashket, 60), Mandron
- Subs: Richards, Adebisi, Finney, Gomes, Sass-Davies, Kashket, Porter
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That’s it for tonight, but we’ll have lots more reaction and analysis from tonight’s match on the SAFC section of the Echo website.
See you soon.
84’ Calls for a red card
Ramsay has just gone straight through Hume in front of the away fans.
It looked like a terrible tackle but the referee has given a throw-in.
80’ Another Sunderland counter attack
The same thing almost happened as Sunderland broke forward from a corner through Neil.
This time Crewe had enough men back.
73’ GOAL!!! DAKAJU!!! WHAT A HIT!
After the corner was cleared Dajaku drove forward with the ball from his own half.
When he reached the penalty area, the winger fired the ball past the keeper at his near post.
What a goal!