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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 40 (setup 3, season 5)
Sunderland
v.
Birmingham City
Formation:
3-4-3
League position:
1
Overall form:
Home form:
Sergio Ramón ROCHET Álvarez717ADRIÁN San Miguel del Castillo
Formation:
3-5-2
League position:
13
Overall form:
Home form:
Nélson Cabral SEMEDO26Harlee DEAN
Alejandro Grimaldo García, ALEX GRIMALDO36Tote António Gomes, TOTI
Alejandro CATENA Marugán4Ivan SUNJIC
Alessio ROMAGNOLI5CENK Özkaçar
MARIO HERMOSO Canseco866ARDA Güler
Hakan ÇALHANOGLU77Festy EBOSELE
Yves BISSOUMA687Antonio NUSA
Victor Okoh BONIFACE9Dominic SOLANKE
Alejandro Baena Rodríguez, ÁLEX BAENA106Karim KONATÉ
PEDRO Lomba NETO11Malik TILLMAN
ManagerSam Ashby
Hayden HACKNEY12Josh WILLIAMS
David OCHOA13Lukas JUTKIEWICZ
SERGIO CAMELLO Pérez14Mathys TEL
Isaac Palazón Camacho, ISI PALAZÓN15MATHEUS MARTINS Silva dos Santos
Liam DELAP16Gary GARDNER

Sunderland 2 Birmingham City 0
(Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 48,559, Stadium: Stadium of Light, Referee: Kevin WRIGHT 6)
41 Çalhanoglu, 45 Álex BaenaScorers
Substitutions
Sendings off
46 ÇalhanogluBookings11 Tillman, 77 Nusa
4Corners5
14Fouls13
1Offsides8
6Shots on4
13Shots off6
19Total shots10
3Shots saved4
53%Possession47%
Man of the match: MARIO HERMOSO Canseco
11WRIGHT books TILLMAN.
12ALEX GRIMALDO galloped through the Birmingham City defence but shot straight at ADRIÁN.
14The stunned Birmingham City 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from TOTI dropped just wide.
19A shot from BONIFACE was nodded off the line by TOTI.
23An exceptional effort from BONIFACE scraped the outside of the righthand post.
25A weak shot from KONATÉ trickled agonisingly wide.
27A strike from NUSA held no problem for ROCHET.
30A shot from TILLMAN seemed a certain goal but the Sunderland 'keeper managed to force the ball clear.
37ARDA made space on the left and pulled the ball to SOLANKE who rasped the ball wide.
41GOAL!! A great ball from BISSOUMA left SEMEDO in the clear, he made the Birmingham City 'keeper commit himself before knocking the ball to ÇALHANOGLU to score. (1-0 Sunderland)
45GOAL!! A great drive from ÇALHANOGLU was punched clear by the Birmingham City 'keeper only as far as ÁLEX BAENA who drove the ball past the stranded Birmingham City 'keeper. (2-0 Sunderland)
 
46A high challenge gets ÇALHANOGLU a yellow card.
51SEMEDO headed the ball wide of the righthand post from just inside the area.
55PEDRO NETO beat DEAN and placed the ball to ROMAGNOLI who hit his shot wide.
56KONATÉ hit a looping shot inches over from long range.
58KONATÉ shot wide.
77NUSA booked by the ref.
78ÁLEX BAENA snapped at a simple chance.
85ALEX GRIMALDO headed inches wide.
86A penalty box meleé resulted in CATENA cracking a low shot over.
89KONATÉ's shot was well saved by ROCHET.
90SEMEDO beat four Birmingham City players and slammed an effort inches wide.