Sheffield Wednesday 3 Sunderland 0: Story of the day after Theo Corbeanu, Florian Kamberi and Lee Gregory goals and another heavy defeat

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Sunderland suffered another humiliating defeat as they were beaten 3-0 by Sheffield Wednesday in League One.

Following a 5-1 defeat at Rotherham on Saturday, Lee Johnson’s side were once again backed by a large away following but failed to deliver at Hillsborough.

First-half goals from Theo Corbeanu and Florian Kamberi put the hosts in control, before Lee Gregory added a third after the interval.

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The Black Cats have now lost three league games in succession after losing against Charlton and Rotherham.

Johnson’s side stay fifth in the table but lost ground on some of the sides around them in the race for promotion.

Sunderland now have 18 days without a league game until their home fixture against Ipswich on November, 20 due to international call-ups and their upcoming FA Cup match.

Here’s how the game played out:

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Sunderland players Aiden O'Brien and Dan Neil.Sunderland players Aiden O'Brien and Dan Neil.
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RECAP: Sheffield Wednesday 3 (Corbeanu, 11) (Kamberi, 39) (Gregory, 54) Sunderland 0

Key Events

  • Sunderland XI: Hoffmann, Winchester, Flanagan, Doyle, Cirkin, Evans, O’Nien, Neil (Pritchard, 66), O’Brien (Broadhead, 84) (Broadhead, 82), Gooch (Embleton, 72), Stewart
  • Subs: Burge, Alves, Wright, Embleton, Pritchard, Dajaku, Broadhead
  • Sheffield Wednesday XI: Peacock-Farrell, Palmer, Dunkley, Johnson, Paterson, Adeniran, Wing, Bannan (Dele-Bashiru, 67), Corbeanu (Brown, 82), Kamberi, Gregory (Berahino, 84)
  • Subs: Wildsmith, Hunt, Brown, Dele-Bashiru, Shodipo, Berahino, Sow

43’ Neil shot saved

The Sunderland midfielder tried his luck from distance but his effort was straight at the keeper.

39’ Goal Sheffield Wednesday (Kamberi)

That was too easy for Corbeanu to beat Gooch and deliver a cross from the left.

Kamberi had time to control the ball in the box and eventually prod the ball home.

2-0 to Wednesday.

36’ A goalmouth scramble

34’ Sunderland goal disallowed

The Sunderland players thought they had drawn level there.

Stewart’s shot hit Gooch, who was in an offside position and the ball bounced back to O’Brien who fired the ball home.

The flag then went up.

29’ Better from Sunderland

25’ Kamberi heads over

Sunderland have been sloppy in possession and are struggling to break Wednesday down when they have the ball.

At the other end, the hosts have looked dangerous with direct balls up to Kamberi and Gregory.

The former has just headed over from Paterson’s cross.