Sunderland 2 Crewe 0 RECAP: Story of the day after Dan Neil and Patrick Roberts goals in valuable win
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After an goalless first half, Black Cats boss Alex Neil made three substitutions shortly after the interval.
One of the changes Dan Neil then broke the deadlock with an excellent strike six minutes from time.
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Hide AdAnother substitute Patrick Roberts then secured the points for Sunderland, scoring his first goal for the club.
Here’s how the game played out:
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RECAP: Sunderland 2 (Neil, 84) (Roberts, 89) Crewe 0
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Winchester, Wright, Cirkin, Gooch, Matete, Evans, Clarke, O’Nien (Neil, 58) , Defoe (Roberts, 64), Stewart
- Subs: Hoffmann, Doyle, Hume, Neil, Dajaku, Roberts, Embleton
- Crewe XI: Richards, Johnson, O’Riordan, Offord, Williams, Harper (Sambou, 74), Lowery, Griffiths, Lundstram, Ainley (Finney, 79), Long
- Subs: Jaaskelainen, Finney, Murphy, Sambou, Lawton, Salisbury, Porter
How Crewe are shaping up
The Alex sit bottom of the League One table ahead of the match and are eight points adrift of safety with ten games to go.
David Artell’s side have also lost nine of their last ten fixtures dating all the way back to the middle of January.
Former Sunderland striker Mikael Mandron will miss the match with a knee injury.
To find out more we caught up with Stuart Price from The Railwaymen Podcast to get the inside track on Sunderland’s next opponents.
Here’s what he said when asked about the team’s form: “About the same as the rest of the season to be honest.
“I think one of the most frustrating things about this season has been we’ve never had any spell where it’s looked like we might put a run together.
“We’re now in March and we haven’t had back-to-back league wins this season.”
Read more HERE
Team news
We’ll start with the Sunderland team news.
Alex Pritchard remains out with an ankle injury, yet the injury isn’t expected to be as bad as first feared.
Nathan Broadhead is available again after missing the win over Fleetwood, while Leon Dakjaku and Danny Batth have also returned to training after spells on the sidelines.
Neil said in yesterday’s press conference that there aren’t any fresh injury setbacks.
It’s Matchday!
Sunderland are back in action today with bottom of the table Crewe set to visit the Stadium of Light.
Alex Neil’s side will be looking to back up Tuesday’s 3-1 win over Fleetwood as the Black Cats fight to finish in the play-off places.
We’ll have all the build-up ahead of the match, as well as in-game analysis and post-match reaction.
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