Sunderland 5 Southampton 0: Highlights after Chris Rigg, Jack Clarke, Pierre Ekwah, Bradley Dack goals
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Sunderland thrashed Southampton 5-0 at the Stadium of Light to claim their second league win of the season.
Tony Mowbray’s side made an electric start as goals from Jack Clarke and Pierre Ekwah put them two goals ahead inside seven minutes.
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Hide AdEkwah then added a third with a long-range strike on the stroke of half-time, before Bradley Dack netted a fourth shortly after the interval.
Finally, Chris Rigg put the icing on the cake with fifth goal in stoppage-time by heading home Jewison Bennette’s cross.
Here’s how the game played out:
RECAP: Sunderland 5 (Clarke, 1) (Ekwah, 7, 45) (Dack, 48) (Rigg, 90+4) Southampton 0
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Hume, Ballard, O’Nien, Cirkin, Neil, Ekwah, Ba (Rigg, 81), Bellingham (Pritchard, 63), Clarke (Bennette, 81), Dack (Hemir, 63)
- Subs: Bishop, Seelt, Huggins, Triantis, Rigg, Pritchard, Taylor, Bennette, Hemir
- Southampton XI: Bazunu, Walker-Peters, Holgate (Charles, 64), Bednarek, Manning, Downes, Smallbone (Alcaraz, 82), A Armstrong, S Armstrong (Adams, 46), Mara (Aribo, 70), Edozie (Fraser, 46)
- Subs: McCarthy, Harwood-Bellis, Bree, Charles, Aribo, Fraser, Alcaraz, Amo-Ameyaw, Adams
90+4’ GOOOOOAAAAALLLLL!!! RIGG!!!
There’s the fifth!
Bennette completed three pirouettes before the ball came back to him.
The winger then crossed the ball from the left for Rigg to head home at the back post.
5-0!
88’ Chance for Hemir
That could have been the icing on the cake and first Sunderland goal for Hemir in a competitive fixture.
Neil sent the striker through on goal with only Bazunu to beat but the keeper saved Hemir’s low effort.
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