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Match report
English Footie
League Cup: Round 3 (setup 5, season 17)
Cardiff City
v.
Sunderland
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
15
Overall form:
Home form:
VICENTE GUAITA Panadero17Vito MANNONE
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
4
Overall form:
Home form:
MÁRIO Figueira FERNANDES728Billy JONES
Yaroslav RAKITSKYI838Bryan OVIEDO Jiménez
Ivan RAKITIC48Jan KIRCHHOFF
José 'Martín' CÁCERES Silva757Jason DENAYER
Joe RALLS6Papy Mison DJILOBODJI
Jermaine PENNANT77Sebastian LARSSON
José Antonio REYES Calderón687Jeremain LENS
Tim MATAVZ79Ola TOIVONEN
Idriss SAADI610Fabio BORINI
Robbie KEANE116Wissam BEN YEDDER
Manager
Junior HOILETT12Joleon LESCOTT
David CORNELL13Ali AHAMADA
Carlton COLE147Will BUCKLEY
Craig NOONE15Lee CATTERMOLE
Stuart O'KEEFE16Duncan WATMORE

Cardiff City 1 Sunderland 2
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 21,244, Stadium: Cardiff City Stadium, Referee: Christian BEECK 7½)
40 RakiticScorers48 Lens, 71 Buckley
Substitutions67 Lens <=> Buckley
Sendings off
Bookings
2Corners1
18Fouls9
1Offsides0
2Shots on3
8Shots off8
10Total shots11
0Shots saved1
45%Possession55%
Man of the match: Billy JONES
8LENS shot over.
8REYES worked the ball to RAKITIC, SAADI latched onto his cross and booted the ball within easy reach of the Sunderland 'keeper.
10REYES ran onto a delightful ball from SAADI but toe-poked his shot wide.
20Uncertainty in the Cardiff City defence enabled LENS to blast the ball inches over.
31REYES stroked an easy chance past the near post.
39RAKITSKYI waltzed away from LARSSON and poked a tame shot past the post.
40GOAL!! A delightful bit of skill enabled RAKITIC to run through the Sunderland defence and score. (1-0 Cardiff City)
42A tame strike from LENS trickled agonisingly wide.
45RALLS beat three Sunderland players and blasted a great chance inches wide.
 
48GOAL!! A shot from LENS flew through a ruck of players and rolled past the unsighted Cardiff City 'keeper. (1-1)
55A right foot shot from BEN YEDDER was blocked by the Cardiff City 'keeper.
65A corner was collected by TOIVONEN who touched the ball inches over.
66A accurate pass was collected by REYES and his looping effort went narrowly over.
70A good effort from REYES scraped the outside of the righthand post.
71GOAL!! A curling outswinging corner was nodded in at the far post by BUCKLEY. (2-1 Sunderland)
74LARSSON headed wide.
79LARSSON fluffed a simple chance.
82The hapless Cardiff City 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from PENNANT fell just over.
88KEANE made space on the right and knocked the ball to REYES who touched the ball wide.
88BORINI beat CÁCERES and flicked the ball to JONES who dragged his shot wide.
90+1A free-kick from REYES went over.