Sheffield United 2 Sunderland 1: Story of the night after Lynden Gooch goal and Dan Neil red card
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Alex Neil’s side held their own for the opening 30 minutes before Dan Neil was shown a straight red card and defender Anel Ahmedhodzic headed the hosts ahead.
The Blades then made it 2-0 shortly after half-time after a close-range finish from Max Lowe.
Sunderland responded well and pulled one back through Lynden Gooch but weren’t able to take anything from the game.
Here’s how the game played out:
RECAP: Sheffield United 2 (Ahmedhodzic, 33) (Lowe, 47) Sunderland 1 (Gooch, 55)
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, O’Nien, Batth (Alese, 86), Cirkin, Gooch, Embleton (Wright, 53), Neil, Clarke (Diamond, 86), Pritchard (Hume, 53), Simms (Matete, 53) , Stewart
- Subs: Bass, Alese, Wright, Hume, Matete, Diamond, Roberts
- Sheffield United XI: Foderingham, Ahmedhodzic, Egan, Norrington-Davies, Baldock, Norwood, Berge, McAtee (Fleck, 65), Lowe, Ndiaye (McBurnie, 74), Brewster (Khadra, 65)
- Subs: Amissah, Basham, Doyle, Fleck, Khadra, McBurnie, Jebbison
75’ McBurnie shot saved
Straight into the action. McBurnie’s shot from inside the box is comfortably saved by Patterson.
73’ Gooch booked
Now Gooch has been shown a yellow card after bringing down Khadra near the Sunderland box.
The free-kick didn’t come to anything.
70’ Off the post!
That was almost 3-1.
A powerful run from Berge saw the midfielder get into a shooting position on the edge of the box.
His shot deflected off Wright and onto the post.
60’ Not over yet
Sunderland now appear to be playing with a 4-4-1 system with Matete and O’Nien in midfield and Gooch and Clarke on the flanks.
55’ GOAAAALLLL!!! GOOCH!!!
Sunderland have one back.
United were comfortable in possession before Matete nicked the ball in midfield.
Stewart then released Gooch who dinked the ball past Foderingham in front of the away fans.
Game on!
