Lincoln City 0 Sunderland 0 RECAP: Story of the day as Cats are held to a frustrating draw at the LNER Stadium
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The Black Cats remain in the League One play-off places after Sheffield Wednesday and Wycombe also dropped points, yet it was an opportunity missed for Alex Neil’s side.
Patrick Roberts impressed for the visitors after he was recalled to the starting XI.
Here’s how the game played out:
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RECAP: Lincoln 0 Sunderland 0
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Winchester, Wright, Cirkin, Gooch (Doyle, 85), Evans, Neil (Dajaku, 74), Clarke (Defoe, 74) , O’Nien, Roberts, Stewart
- Subs: Hoffmann, Doyle, Hume, Matete, Embleton, Dajaku, Defoe
- Lincoln XI: Wright, Poole, Jackson, Walsh (Whittaker, 65), Norton-Cuffy, McGrandles, Fiorini, Bramall, Maguire, Marquis (Cullen, 80), Hopper
- Subs: Sanders, Whittaker, Sorensen, Bishop, Cullen, House, Scully
44’ Chance for Lincoln
That’s the best chance Lincoln have created so far.
Bramall released Marquis down the left and the forward’s low cross was stabbed wide by Hopper.
Moments later Sunderland won a corner before Roberts’ in-swinging cross was punched away by Wright.
30’ Clarke goes close again
The Sunderland wing-back is growing into the contest.
He almost opened the scoring again as O’Nien won the ball back on the right and delivered a cross.
Clarke met the delivery first time but his low shot went wide.