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Commentary

0¹ KLOSE brought the ball away from MAICON and rifled a tame shot over the bar. 1¹ BEREZUTSKY beat two Wigan Athletic players and blasted a great chance inches wide. 10¹ GOAL!! A swerving inswinging corner was headed in at the near post by HIGUAÍN. (1-0 Sunderland) 11¹ KLOSE stroked a simple chance past the lefthand post. 14¹ A mix up in the Sunderland defence enabled KLOSE to blast the ball inches over. 25¹ A shot from DI MARÍA held little difficulty for the Sunderland 'keeper. 27¹ The bemused 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from LÚCIO dropped just over. 31¹ An exceptional strike from HAZARD was dealt with by a fine parry from the Sunderland 'keeper. 34¹ A corner bobbled toward HIGUAÍN who turned the ball just beyond the far post. 43¹ GOAL!! Some fine work by LAMPARD on the right, left HIGUAÍN yards clear, and he beat the Wigan Athletic 'keeper and drove the ball over the line. (2-0 Sunderland) 44¹ DI MARÍA made space on the left and knocked the ball to KLOSE who rasped the ball wide. 1² KLOSE ran onto a delightful ball from VALENCIA but dragged his effort wide of the lefthand post. 3² HIGUAÍN placed a left foot shot wide from thirty yards out. 5² GOAL!! DI MARÍA hit a curling twenty yard shot past the stunned DE GEA. (2-1 Sunderland) 8² ETO'O shot wide. 9² GOAL!! A block from DE GEA enabled ETO'O to force the ball into the empty net. (2-2) 11² ASSAIDI touched the ball through a ruck of players but the Wigan Athletic 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left. 16² A weak shot from ASSAIDI rolled agonisingly wide. 18² ETO'O was put clear by GERRARD and he raced past DE GEA but struck his shot inches wide. 26² XAVI beat ASSAIDI and hit the ball to KLOSE who blasted his shot wide. 30² The Sunderland 'keeper did well to hold onto a wicked strike from ETO'O. 41² A accurate pass was collected by KLOSE and his left foot shot flew narrowly wide. 42² ASSAIDI hoofed the ball wide of the goal from just outside the area.

Sunderland   League position: 12 Home league form: LLWW Overall league form: XLLLLWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups David DE GEA 6  1 7  JÚLIO CÉSAR Soares MAICON Douglas 6½ 2 7½ PEPE Álvaro PEREIRA 6  3 7½ XAVI(f) (c)Frank LAMPARD 7  4 7  Steven GERRARD Nicolás BURDISSO 7  5 6½ Carles PUYOL Vasili BEREZUTSKY 6½ 6 7  LÚCIO Miralem PJANIC 6½ 7 6  Antonio VALENCIA Oussama ASSAIDI 7  8 6½ Eden HAZARD (p)Gonzalo HIGUAÍN 6½ 9 7  Miroslav KLOSE (f)Maxime GONALONS 6  10 7  Samuel ETO'O(c,p) Wissam BEN YEDDER 6  11 7  Ángel DI MARÍA Manager Camile HAMILTON Marouane FELLAINI    12    Neven SUBOTIC Ali AHAMADA    13    Roman WEIDENFELLER Jamie CARRAGHER 6  14    Sergei IGNASHEVICH Stefan DE VRIJ    15    Raheem STERLING Ignacio CAMACHO    16    Conor COADY

Wigan Athletic   League position: 5 Away league form: LWLW Overall league form: WLWXWXLW Formation: 3-1-4-2

Statistics

Sunderland 2 Wigan Athletic 2 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 50,662, Stadium: Stadium of Light, Referee: Rob Styles 7½) Higuaín 10¹, Higuaín 43¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession di María 5², Eto'o 9² PereiraóCarragher 34²           4 3 8 15 0 9 3 5 6 9 9 14 1 2 47% 53% ¶ Man of the match: Pepe ¶