Sunderland 1 Gillingham 0: Story of the day after late Nathan Broadhead winner sends Alex Neil's side into the play-off places
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Nathan Broadhead came off the bench to head home a stoppage-time winner when he converted Elliot Embleton’s cross.
The result moved the Black Cats upto sixth in the League One table with six games remaining.
Here’s how the game played out:
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RECAP: Sunderland 1 (Broadhead, 90+5) Gillingham 0
Key Events
- Sunderland XI: Patterson, Winchester (Gooch, 69), Batth, Wright, Cirkin, Evans, O’Nien (Embleton, 69) , Clarke, Pritchard (Broadhead, 69), Roberts, Stewart
- Subs: Hoffmann, Xhemajli, Neil, Matete, Embleton, Gooch, Broadhead
- Gillingham XI: Chapman, Jackson, Ehmer, Masterson, Tucker, Tutonda, Lee, Chambers (Reeves, 73), Thompson, Oliver, Kelman (Akehurst, 89)
- Subs: Dahlberg, Maghoma, Akehurst, Reeves, Dickson-Peters
77’ Time running out
More boos from the home fans as Thompson goes down and is now receiving treatment.
75’ A similar shape
It’s still a similar shape for Sunderland after chose changes, with Gooch replacing Winchester at right-back.
Embleton has taken up O’Nien’s role in midfield, with Broadhead playing alongside Stewart up top.
73’ First change for Gillingham
Gillingham have made their first change with Reeves replacing Chambers in midfield.
69’ THREE changes for SAFC
Broadhead, Gooch and Embleton have come on for O’Nien, Winchester and Pritchard.
67’ Cirkin shot saved
The full-back tried his luck from distance after he was set up by Roberts but the shot was straight at the goalkeeper.
The ball could have gone anywhere there after Pritchard delivered an in-swinging corner into the box.
Eventually the ball was scrambled away.
Moments later Cirkin’s cross was headed back across goal by Stewart but the effort went wide.
56’ A few heavy touches
Sunderland have just been a bit sloppy at the start of this second half.
First Roberts took a heavy touch as he looked to attack down the right.
Moments later Pritchard overhit a forward pass as he looked to play the ball in behind the Gillingham defence.