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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 37 (setup 1, season 26)
Crewe Alexandra
v.
Macclesfield Town
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Erwin MULDER1ROBERTO Jiménez Gago
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
7
Overall form:
Home form:
Medhi BENATIA728CÉDRIC Ricardo Alves Soares
Nicolas Alexis Julio N'KOULOU Ndoubena63DOUGLAS Franco Teixeira
Andrea POLI4Yohan CABAYE
Stefan DE VRIJ75LEANDRO CASTAN da Silva
Sven BENDER66Daniele RUGANI
Shinji OKAZAKI7Jorge Luiz Frello Filho, JORGINHO
Granit XHAKA68ROBERTO FIRMINO Barbosa de Oliveira
Stefan KIESSLING697LUIZ ADRIANO de Souza da Silva
ARDA Turan107Axel WITSEL
André-Pierre GIGNAC7116Fabio BORINI
Beck NigelManager
Morgan SANSON12Ángel Martín CORREA
René ADLER13Hugo VENTURA Ferreira Moura Guedes
Kelvin LEERDAM14Stefano DENSWIL
Jesús Manuel CORONA Ruíz15Yannick Ferreira CARRASCO
Ola JOHN16Georginio WIJNALDUM

Crewe Alexandra 2 Macclesfield Town 1
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 39,677, Stadium: Gresty Road, Referee: Nigel MILLER 7)
1 Kiessling, 32 OkazakiScorers75og Xhaka
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings17 Cabaye, 31 Witsel
3Corners2
10Fouls8
9Offsides5
6Shots on12
5Shots off4
11Total shots16
3Shots saved9
43%Possession57%
Man of the match: CÉDRIC Ricardo Alves Soares
1GOAL!! A poor clearance dropped to N'KOULOU who scuffed a shot goalward, luckily KIESSLING was on hand to blast the ball into the roof of the net. (1-0 Crewe Alexandra)
5CÉDRIC touched the ball through a crowd of players but the Crewe Alexandra 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
6The Crewe Alexandra 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from DOUGLAS.
8LUIZ ADRIANO dribbled round BENATIA and rattled a poor shot wide.
13GIGNAC's shot was well held by the Macclesfield Town 'keeper.
17CABAYE cautioned by MILLER.
24A shot from LUIZ ADRIANO held little difficulty for MULDER.
25A thirty yard shot from LUIZ ADRIANO caused the 'keeper no problem.
26The Macclesfield Town 'keeper blocked a clever strike from POLI.
31The referee cautions WITSEL.
32GOAL!! OKAZAKI dribbled forward, glanced up and slammed a shot into the Macclesfield Town net. (2-0 Crewe Alexandra)
36OKAZAKI headed over the bar.
41XHAKA drove a left foot shot inches wide from thirty yards out.
42CABAYE poked an easy chance past the lefthand post.
 
56A shot from DOUGLAS was smothered by MULDER.
57OKAZAKI turned ROBERTO FIRMINO but shot the ball into the arms of the Macclesfield Town 'keeper.
63A clever cross from GIGNAC, was shot goalbound by OKAZAKI only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
65The Crewe Alexandra 'keeper was able to block a powerful shot.
74The motionless 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from JORGINHO fell just over.
75GOAL!! A long shot from ROBERTO FIRMINO deflected off the head of XHAKA and into his own net.
82KIESSLING ran onto a delightful ball from XHAKA but pulled his shot wide.
86LEANDRO CASTAN was put clear by JORGINHO and he stepped inside MULDER but rammed his shot over.