Goals:
1-0: Maddison (36, fired a free-kick from 30 yards that changed direction and flew in the centre of the net)
2-0: Knight (52, drilled low and inside the far corner after he was picked out unmarked)
3-0: Maddison (64, picked out the far corner of McLaughlin’s net after finishing a move he started)
Bookings: C McLaughlin (31, foul); Toney (51, foul); Wyke (57, foul); Power (84, foul); Leadbitter (89, foul)
Sending-off: O’Nien (71, violent conduct); Wyke (77, second bookable offence)
Referee: Craig Hicks (Surrey) – dubious O’Nien red but this defeat was the visitors’ own making. 6
Attendance: 10,005
Entertainment: **
Peter Sund
Shots on 4 1
Shots off 6 5
Corners 2 4
Fouls 12 15
Offsides 3 2
PETERBOROUGH UNITED (4-3-1-2): Pym 6; Mason 6 (Thompson 84), Beevers 8, Kent 7, Butler 7; Knight 7 (Burrows 80), Reed 6, Boyd 6; MADDISON 8; Eisa 7 (Dembele 63, 5), Toney 6. Subs (not used): O’Malley, Bennett, Tasdemir, Ward.
SUNDERLAND (4-2-3-1):
5 J McLaughlin: Beaten too many times to say he had a good game;
5 O’Nien: Had been lively enough and then got suffered the red card woe
5 Ozturk: this wasn’t a day for the men at the centre of the defence
5 Willis: Got his head on plenty that came his way but not as convincing as he has been of late
4 C McLaughlin: Struggled to make his mark defensively after being brought back;
6 LEADBITTER: Had played reasonably well throughout the game until things turned sour
5 Power: Unable to make his mark and was another man to enter the referee’s notebook
5 Gooch: Made a couple of decent runs without excelling
5 McNulty: Was the one Sunderland player to test Pym
5 McGeady; Didn’t make Sunderland tick like he did last season here
3 Wyke: Had not enjoyed the best of outings and needlessly picked up a second yellow
Subs:
Grigg (for Gooch 63): Had a difficult task with Sunderland shorthanded. 5
Flanagan (for McNulty 74)
Dobson (for McGeady 78)
(not used) Burge (gk), McGeouch, Baldwin, Embleton.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Marcus Maddison – the dynamic Durham midfielder shone above the rest.
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