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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 1 (setup 1, season 26)
Sunderland
v.
Walsall
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
10
Overall form:
Home form:
Christian WETKLO718Arran LEE-BARRETT
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
20
Overall form:
Home form:
Daniel SCHWAAB62Robert HUTH
Marcel SCHÄFER83Alain TRAORÉ
Julian SCHUSTER84Konstantin ZYRYANOV
Per MERTESACKER5Kévin THÉOPHILE-CATHERINE
Stéphane GRICHTING866Jorge PULIDO Mayoral
Stefan AIGNER7Gabriel TORJE
Leonardo BITTENCOURT78José Antonio REYES Calderón
Nils PETERSEN796Billel OMRANI
Alexander MEIER106Jan MORÁVEK
OSVALDO Lourenço Filho116Diego Martín FORLÁN Corazo
Manager
Sead KOLASINAC12Roberto Maximiliano PEREYRA
André HOFFMANN13Luke SIMPSON
Manuel SCHMIEDEBACH14Alejandro POZUELO Melero
Jan SCHLAUDRAFF15Timo GEBHART
Alexander ESSWEIN616Martin Nicolás BENÍTEZ

Sunderland 2 Walsall 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 32,702, Stadium: Stadium of Light, Referee: Tony BATES 6½)
70 Bittencourt, 88 GrichtingScorers
76 Schwaab <=> EssweinSubstitutions
Sendings off
75 MeierBookings
3Corners5
9Fouls14
1Offsides0
4Shots on1
11Shots off5
15Total shots6
2Shots saved1
58%Possession42%
Man of the match: Konstantin ZYRYANOV
2A penalty box meleé resulted in HUTH cracking the ball over.
4A useful ball from SCHUSTER on the left fell to BITTENCOURT who scuffed his shot over the bar.
5A cross from AIGNER left BITTENCOURT in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
6PETERSEN rifled an easy chance past the far post.
25A mix up in the Walsall defence enabled OSVALDO to blast the ball just beyond the far post.
34REYES's shot was well saved by WETKLO.
36PETERSEN beat MORÁVEK but fired the ball into the arms of the Walsall 'keeper.
45+2A good effort from BITTENCOURT scraped the outside of the righthand post.
45+3AIGNER dribbled away from PULIDO and flicked a poor shot wide.
 
46LEE-BARRETT dived to his left to save an accurate drive from Sunderland's SCHUSTER.
49TRAORÉ hit a left foot shot just beyond the far post from just outside the area.
53SCHWAAB rushed a simple chance.
56The motionless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from BITTENCOURT dropped just wide.
63OSVALDO shot over.
68A corner bobbled toward FORLÁN who fired the ball just wide.
70GOAL!! A delightful shot from SCHÄFER was palmed away by the Walsall 'keeper only as far as BITTENCOURT who shot the ball past the stranded LEE-BARRETT. (1-0 Sunderland)
73PETERSEN headed just beyond the far post.
75A bad challenge gets MEIER a yellow card.
81A free-kick from REYES went inches over.
82A pin-point pass found OSVALDO and his right foot shot raced narrowly over.
84ESSWEIN was put clear by GRICHTING and he nutmegged LEE-BARRETT but thrust his shot wide.
88GOAL!! An imaginative BITTENCOURT played a great ball down the right to GRICHTING who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (2-0 Sunderland)