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
Team news
In terms of team news, Patrick Roberts is set to miss today’s match with a minor hamstring injury but is expected to return after the international break.
Corry Evans, Aji Alese and Jay Matete all remain sidelined, while new signing Eliezer Mayenda has a hamstring injury.
Jenson Seelt was named on the bench at Coventry last weekend and is expected to be in the squad again today.
New signings Nazariy Rusyn, Timothee Pembele and Adil Aouchiche and Mason Burstow are unavailable as they weren’t registered in time for today’s match.
Transfer recap
So to recap, Sunderland brought in four new players on deadline day with Nazariy Rusyn, Timothee Pembele and Adil Aouchiche joining the club on permanent transfers, while Mason Burstow was brought in on loan from Chelsea.
Danny Batth’s permanent switch to Norwich was confirmed in the early hours of this morning, while Ross Stewart completed his move to Southampton and Lynden Gooch joined Stoke.
Elliot Embleton also signed for Derby on loan.
It’s Matchday!
Good morning! How many of you stayed up last night?
It was certainly a busy end to the transfer window as four new players arrived at Sunderland on deadline day, while Ross Stewart, Lynden Gooch and Danny Batth were allowed to leave on permanent deals.
On the pitch, Tony Mowbray’s side are preparing to face Southampton in the Championship, and we’ve got all the action covered.
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