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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 44 (setup 3, season 5)
Bradford City
v.
Newcastle United
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
6
Overall form:
Home form:
Yassine BOUNOU17Aaron RAMSDALE
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
Home form:
Alessandro FLORENZI2Jesús NAVAS González
Tom McINTYRE63RENAN Augusto LODI dos Santos
Amadou ONANA48Georginio WIJNALDUM
Linus GECHTER57Devyne RENSCH
Marco VERRATTI66EDUARDO Filipe QUARESMA Vieira Coimbra Simões
Emiliano BUENDIA Stati7Carlos BALEBA
Omari HUTCHINSON8KAYKY da Silva Chagas
Folarin BALOGUN9Cristiano RONALDO dos Santos Aveiro
Denis ZAKARIA106Edin DZEKO
Dries MERTENS11Jahkeele MARSHALL-RUTTY
Manager
VICTOR HUGO Gomes Silva12TOMÁS do Lago Pontes ESTEVES
Ignacio Peña Sotorres, IÑAKI PEÑA13Gregor KOBEL
Jamie LAWRENCE14Patrik SCHICK
Mika BIERETH15James McATEE
Hákon Arnar HARALDSSON16Valentín BARCO

Bradford City 1 Newcastle United 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 24,987, Stadium: Valley Parade, Referee: MELLIN 6)
27 BalogunScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
Bookings57 Wijnaldum, 67 Rensch, 90 Baleba
3Corners8
6Fouls13
3Offsides9
4Shots on3
9Shots off5
13Total shots8
3Shots saved3
48%Possession52%
Man of the match: Georginio WIJNALDUM
6A cross from HUTCHINSON left BUENDIA in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
9BALEBA floated the ball to DZEKO who nodded it inches wide.
12VERRATTI's header was well saved by the 'keeper.
19The 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce drive from Newcastle United's DZEKO.
21A corner found MERTENS who flicked the ball over.
22A great effort from BUENDIA scraped the top of the crossbar.
27GOAL!! An energetic VERRATTI ran down the right wing and touched the ball back for BALOGUN to slip home. (1-0 Bradford City)
31BALOGUN dribbled away from EDUARDO QUARESMA and poked a weak shot over the bar.
34ONANA headed over the bar.
45+3A penalty box meleé resulted in MCINTYRE cracking the ball over.
 
53Uncertainty in the Bradford City defence enabled BALEBA to volley the ball wide.
55KAYKY beat a number of Bradford City players and fired a golden opportunity wide.
57WIJNALDUM cautioned by the referee for a poor tackle.
60The Bradford City 'keeper stopped a lovely strike from KAYKY.
61A fine dribble was ended by a good save by the oncoming Newcastle United 'keeper.
61A looping effort from RONALDO was saved by the Bradford City 'keeper.
63FLORENZI rushed a simple chance.
67The ref books RENSCH for a poor challenge.
68A useful ball from ONANA on the left was collected by ZAKARIA who scuffed his effort just beyond the near post.
72A weak shot from BALOGUN trickled agonisingly wide.
78A accurate pass fell to RONALDO and his left foot effort went narrowly over.
83ONANA steamed through the Newcastle United defence but shot straight at the Newcastle United 'keeper.
88The motionless 'keeper stared in disbelief as a backpass from HUTCHINSON dropped just over.
90BALEBA given a yellow card for a high tackle on GECHTER.