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Commentary

5¹ DANI ALVES played the ball to THIAGO SILVA who forced it over the bar. 8¹ ROONEY's header was well saved by the Macclesfield Town 'keeper. 11¹ GOAL!! A tame shot from SCHWEINSTEIGER seemed to hold no problem for CASILLAS but the ball somehow squirmed over the line. (1-0 Exeter City) 14¹ The 'keeper managed to block an amazing shot. 16¹ CASILLAS saved a beautiful effort from LAHM. 20¹ SÁNCHEZ cautioned for a late challenge on LAHM. 21¹ GOAL!! A long ball from DANI ALVES down the middle found the lurking REUS who whacked a deadly shot into the net. (2-0 Exeter City) 29¹ MÜLLER made space on the right and touched the ball to IBRAHIMOVIC who rasped the ball over. 31¹ A cross from VIDAL left FALCAO in lots of space but he snapped at his shot. 34¹ DANI ALVES headed just wide. 39¹ MÜLLER worked the ball to REUS, IBRAHIMOVIC controlled his cross and nodded the ball within easy reach of CASILLAS. 40¹ A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing Exeter City 'keeper. 1² A header by FABREGAS at the far post was easily collected by the 'keeper. 4² GOAL!! A Exeter City counter-attack allowed IBRAHIMOVIC to setup REUS with an easy goal. (3-0 Exeter City) 24² A looping effort from IBRAHIMOVIC was clawed past the post by CASILLAS. 28² A penalty box meleé resulted in DANI ALVES driving the ball wide. 29² A accurate pass fell to DI NATALE and his left foot effort raced narrowly over. 30² ÖZIL's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Exeter City crossbar. 33² SCHWEINSTEIGER beat two Macclesfield Town players and blasted a great chance wide. 40² REUS was put clear by MÜLLER and he beat the Macclesfield Town 'keeper but thrust his shot wide. 44² The Macclesfield Town 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from LAHM. 46² FABREGAS dribbled past ABATE and flicked a tame shot over.

Exeter City   League position: 1 Home league form: WWWW Overall league form: XWWXWWLW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups Thibaut COURTOIS 7½ 1 7  Iker CASILLAS DANI ALVES 6½ 2 6½ Ignazio ABATE Philipp LAHM 8½ 3 7  JORDI ALBA Ramos Francesc FABREGAS 7½ 4 7½ Arturo VIDAL THIAGO Emiliano SILVA 6½ 5 6½ Neven SUBOTIC (c)SERGIO RAMOS García 7  6 6  JAVI MARTÍNEZ Zlatan IBRAHIMOVIC 5½ 7 6½ KUBA Marco REUS 7½ 8 6½ Mesut ÖZIL (p)Wayne ROONEY 6½ 9 6½ Radamel FALCAO(p) Bastian SCHWEINSTEIGER 7½ 10 5½ Antonio DI NATALE(c,f) (f)Thomas MÜLLER 8  11 5½ Alexis SÁNCHEZ Steve GIBSON Manager Vincent KOMPANY 6  12    Danny HOESEN Ilkay GÜNDOGAN    13    Salvatore SIRIGU Giorgio CHIELLINI 6  14    Jack WILSHERE Andrés INIESTA    15    Marcel SCHMELZER Sergio AGÜERO    16    Daniel CARVAJAL

Macclesfield Town   League position: 4 Away league form: WLWL Overall league form: WWWLXWWL Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Exeter City 3 Macclesfield Town 0 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 57,524, Stadium: St.James Park, Referee: Rob Styles 7½) Schweinsteiger 11¹, Reus 21¹, Reus 4² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession   IbrahimovicóKompany 42², RooneyóChiellini 44²         Sánchez 20¹ 4 3 9 7 5 3 10 3 11 3 21 6 7 2 62% 38% ¶ Man of the match: Philipp Lahm ¶