Sunderland 1 Ipswich 2 Town: Reaction after Trai Hume red card with late Dan Neil goal not enough for a point
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Sunderland were beaten 2-1 by Ipswich Town at the Stadium of Light in their first Championship game of the season.
Tony Mowbray’s side dominated possession but fell behind on the stroke of half-time as former striker Nathan Broadhead opened the scoring.
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Hide AdGeorge Hurst then added a second for the visitors shortly after the break, before Sunderland defender Trai Hume was sent off for receiving a second yellow card.
Dan Neil did pull a goal back for the hosts in the closing stages but it was too little too late.
Sunderland 1 (Neil, 86) Ipswich 2 (Broadhead, 45+1) (Hurst, 53)
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Hume, Ballard, O’Nien, Cirkin (Huggins, 90+10), Neil, Ekwah (Gooch, 87), Roberts, Bellingham (Pritchard, 58), Clarke, Hemir (Ba, 58)
- Subs: Bishop, Triantis, Batth, Gooch, Huggins Rigg, Ba, Bennette, Pritchard
- Ipswich XI: Hladky, Donacien (Ball, 90+6), Woolfenden, Burgess, Burns, Morsy, Luongo, Davis (Leigh, 90+6), Chaplin (Hutchinson, 76), Broadhead (Harness, 73), Hurst (Ladapo, 76)
- Subs: Slicker, Leigh, Ball, Evans, Taylor, Harness, Hutchinson, Jackson, Ladapo
85’ Important block from Ekwah
Ipswich could have scored a third there as Neil lost the ball and Hutchinson broke on the counter attack.
Ekwah did well to stop the Ipswich man.
86’ GOAL!!! NEIL!!!
Sunderland have a chance after Cirkin’s low cross is turned in by Neil.
Four minutes of normal time remaining.
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