Goals:
0-1: Virtue-Thick (4, controlled the ball in the area before chipping to the back post and over the keeper after some awful defending)
1-1: Wyke (37, moved to meet Maguire’s corner with a strong volley in to the to corner that required plenty of desire to get there)
Bookings: Gnanduillet (45, dissent); Dobson (45, dissent); Flanagan (59, foul); Gooch (81, dissent) Tilt (82, dissent); Feeney (9, foul)
Sending-off: Dobson (74, second bookable offence)
Referee: Ollie Yates (Staffordshire) – quick to issue the red card to Dobson and did make a few strange decisions. 4
Attendance: 30,595
Entertainment: **
Sund Black
Shots on 2 4
Shots off 6 7
Corners 7 4
Fouls 10 13
Offsides 2 2
SUNDERLAND (3-4-2-1):
4 J McLaughlin: Got away with a first half blunder when Husband would have made him pay ;
4 Flanagan: Nowhere near as convincing as he was last season and was cautioned
6 Ozturk: Grew in confidence as the game went on after a sloppy start
6 De Bock: The pick of the three centre-backs and is clearly well liked by Parkinson;
6 O’Nien: Got on the ball enough but didn’t play with the sort tenacity he is known for
5 Power: Looked to get involved without influencing the game in an attacking sense
4 Dobson: Needlessly picked up his first caution and then shouldn’t have made the sort of challenge he did when he had already been booked
5 Hume: Is better when he gets down the line and joins in with attacks
5 Watmore: Got through plenty of running but didn’t cause anywhere near the sort of damage he would have liked to
6 Maguire: Sent over a few lovely centres and as well as scoring from one of those;
7 WYKE: Had the impact in the final third Parkinson was looking for
Subs:
Gooch (for Watmore 72)
Grigg (for Wyke 78)
Leadbitter (for Maguire 84)
(not used) Burge (gk), McLaughlin, McNulty, Lynch.
BLACKPOOL (4-3-2-1): Edwards 6; Turton 5, Tilt 6, Edwards 6, Husband 5; Feeney 6, Spearing, VIRTUE-THICK 7 (Thompson 90); Delfouneso (Nuttall 81, Kaikai (Scannell 46); Gnanduillet. Subs (not used): Bushiri, Guy, Sims, McDonald.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Charlie Wyke - provided the extra bit of power needed.
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