Rotherham United 2 Sunderland 1: Highlights as Cats are beaten despite Joe Gelhardt goal at New York Stadium

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Sunderland were beaten 2-1 at Rotherham United at the New York Stadium

Rotherham took the lead in the 19th minute when captain Ollie Rathbone struck a low effort into the bottom corner from the edge of the box.

The hosts then added a second 11 minutes after half-time when Shane Ferguson broke down the left before converting another low effort.

Leeds loanee Joe Gelhardt did score his first Sunderland goal just after the hour mark, but it was too little too late.

Here’s how the game played out:

RECAP: Rotherham 2 (Rathbone, 19) (Ferguson, 56) Sunderland 1 (Gelhardt, 61)

Key Events

  • Sunderland XI: Patterson, O’Nien, Ballard, Batth (Alese, 62), Cirkin (Hume, 62), Neil, Michut (Roberts, 62) , Amad, Pritchard (Ba, 85), Clarke (Bennette, 85), Gelhardt
  • Subs: Bass, Alese, Hume, Ba, Ekwah, Roberts, Bennette
  • Rotherham XI: Johansson, Peltier (Odoffin, 80), Humphreys, Hall (Harding, 45), Hjelde, Coventry, Rathbone (Washington, 78), Ogbene, Fosu, Ferguson (Lindsay, 64), Hugill.
  • Subs: Vickers, Harding, Bramall, Lindsay, Odoffin, Washington, Kelly

90+3’ Patterson is up

Bennette wins a corner and the keeper is going up.

90+4’ Gelhardt effort saved

The ball dropped to Gelhardt whose effort was saved by the leg of Johansson.

FULL-TIME: ROTHERHAM 2 SUNDERLAND 1

Reaction from the New York Stadium