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Match report
English Footie
League 2: Round 28 (setup 1, season 31)
Bristol Rovers
v.
Sunderland
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
Home form:
André ONANA71Lawrence VIGOUROUX
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
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JEMERSON de Jesus Nascimento2Daniel SCHWAAB
Ron VLAAR73Uros SPAJIC
Képler Laveran Lima Ferreira, PEPE47Manuel SCHMIEDEBACH
ROLANDO Jorge Pires da Fonseca5Niklas MOISANDER
Morgan SCHNEIDERLIN766Ryan BENNETT
Sofiane HANNI7Lee CATTERMOLE
Daniel DIDAVI78Alexander ESSWEIN
Sandro WAGNER897Nils PETERSEN
Valentino LAZARO7106Victor ANICHEBE
Edin VISCA116Fabio BORINI
Scott SmillieManager
Daniel Sánchez AYALA12Valentin ROBERGE
Jonas LÖSSL13Haris SEFEROVIC
Mohamed Nassir ELNENY146Billy JONES
Paul-Georges NTEP de Madiba15OSVALDO Lourenço Filho
Kelechi IHEANACHO16Joan VERDÚ Fernández

Bristol Rovers 4 Sunderland 1
(Half-time: 3-1, Attendance: 48,706, Stadium: The Memorial Stadium, Referee: Iain WILLIAMSON 6)
13 Lazaro, 21 Schneiderlin, 34 Hanni, 68 ViscaScorers19 Esswein
Substitutions83 Schmiedebach <=> Jones
Sendings off
Bookings
7Corners6
4Fouls4
17Offsides1
7Shots on6
10Shots off8
17Total shots14
3Shots saved5
50%Possession50%
Man of the match: Sandro WAGNER
4A wonderful save prevented PETERSEN from scoring a lovely goal.
4VISCA steamed through the Sunderland defence but shot straight at the Sunderland 'keeper.
6PETERSEN blasted a left foot shot over the bar from thirty yards out.
6SPAJIC rifled an easy chance past the lefthand post.
7A accurate pass was collected by SPAJIC and his deadly shot raced narrowly wide.
10A looping shot from VISCA was clawed past the post by the Sunderland 'keeper.
11A header by SPAJIC at the far post was comfortably collected by ONANA.
13GOAL!! A long goal-kick from VLAAR caught the Sunderland defence napping and LAZARO nipped in to sidestep the 'keeper and score. (1-0 Bristol Rovers)
19GOAL!! Some useful work by MOISANDER on the left, left ESSWEIN yards clear, and he beat the 'keeper and slammed the ball into the back of the net. (1-1)
21GOAL!! A cross from VLAAR was nodded away by ESSWEIN only for VISCA to volley the ball back into the box for SCHNEIDERLIN to force over the line. (2-1 Bristol Rovers)
28A free-kick from CATTERMOLE went wide.
30A neatly crafted pass from ESSWEIN, was hit goalbound by ANICHEBE only for the 'keeper to block.
34GOAL!! A long range effort was deflected into the path of HANNI who hit the ball past the helpless VIGOUROUX. (3-1 Bristol Rovers)
 
46VISCA rasped the ball through a crowd of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
51ESSWEIN waltzed round JEMERSON and rattled a tame shot well wide.
68GOAL!! A great thirty yard shot from HANNI rattled the upright and in the ensuing meleé the ball was hoofed into the net by VISCA. (4-1 Bristol Rovers)
71VISCA ran onto a delightful ball from LAZARO but dragged his shot wide of the goal.
72A useful ball from PEPE on the left bobbled toward DIDAVI who mishit his shot inches wide.
74A weak shot from PETERSEN trickled agonisingly wide.
82VISCA snapped at an easy chance.
83PEPE was put clear by SCHNEIDERLIN and he beat the 'keeper but struck his shot over.
90The hapless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from SCHWAAB fell just over.