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Saturday September 15, 2007 Finished Stadium of Light

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Sunderland

  • Jones 29’
  • Wallace 47’

Reading

  • Kitson 84’
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  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Sunderland
    • Reading
    • 90+2' It's all over. Sunderland have the three points.
    • 90' Reading have a free-kick in a central position 25 yards from goal. Very promising situation for them. After a short conference Convey steps up and fires his shot just over the bar, much to the relief of the Sunderland faithful.
    • 88' Reading are piling the pressure on late here at the Stadium of Light. Hunt fires in a corner, but the delivery is poor.
    • 84' Kitson pulls a goal back for Reading with a header at the near post from Hunt's cross! Gordon had no chance with that!
    • 79' Reading finally make it into the Sunderland area as Shorey feeds a superb bal through to Shane Long, he brings it into his left foot, and lashes a bobbling shot straight across goal!!!
    • 75' Chopra is in behind the Reading defence and bears down on Hahnemann, but the flag is up against him for offside.
    • 70' Etuhu is ajudged to have barged Harper off the ball and Reading have a free-kick 25 yards from goal. Hunt steps up, but there's not enough pace on the shot and Gordon saves comfortably.
    • 64' More great work again from Murty to fire Wallace's cross clear of the danger zone. The third goal looks only a matter of time for Sunderland.
    • 62' Great chance for Wallace after a cross was spilled into his path in the centre of the area just 15 yards out, but Murty gets back to make a fantastic saving challenge!!!
    • 59' Jones now with a glorious through ball for Chopra, he contemplates taking on his man, cuts inside, evades several challenges, and then drags a right foot shot just past the post.
    • 56' Leadbitter now goes storming down the right wing and whips in a cross for Jones, but Ingimarsson is there to hack clear.
    • 53' Kenwyne Jones has been a thorn in the side of the Reading defence all afternoon. His physical strength and pace have been a huge asset for Sunderland.
    • 48' Kenwyne Jones did superbly to evade the attentions of a whole host of Reading players on the right wing, his low cross was not dealt with on the near post by the Reading defence, and it rolled all the way through to Ross Wallace, who sidefooted in from 6 yards out.
    • 47' Sunderland are two up at the very start of the second half!!! It's Ross Wallace at the back post from just a few yards out!
    • 46' We're underway in the second half.
    • 45' Nicky Shorey gets down the left flank for Reading, though sees his cross headed clear by Collins. Now Rosenior whips in the corner, Bikey gets his head to it and puts it past the left hand post. There's half-time now.
    • 41' Jones has missed a great chance to put Sunderland 2-0 up! Great work by Ross Wallace on the left, he beat his man, swung a fine ball into the danegr zone, Jones met it but could only head it downards into the turf and over the bar.
    • 39' Paul McShane fires yet another ball into the heart of the Reading area, though this one is cleared by Murty.
    • 36' Sunderland are good value for their lead but Reading are on the attack now. Kitson slips a ball into Liam Rosenior, he shoots, but Danny Collins arrives in the nick of time to make an superb saving challenge.
    • 30' That's his first goal for the Black Cats since his £5 million move from Southampton.
    • 29' Kenwyne Jones opens the scoring!!! He received the ball from Leadbitter on the right, set himself, then let loose a fierce left foot shot that went in at the near post!
    • 26' Brynjar Gunnarsson has brought down new signing Kenwyne Jones and Sunderland have a free-kick. Wallace whips it in, though Ingimarsson nods it clear of danger.
    • 22' Reading get forward and win a corner...Shorey swings it in, though Yorke is up well in the area to head clear.
    • 15' There's been something of a lull in the tempo of the game after an entertaining first ten minutes.
    • 11' Leadbitter seizes upon an attempted headed clearance and fires in a great volley, forcing Hahnemann into an excellent save low to his left!! It comes out to Chopra on the rebound, but he can do nothing with the header.
    • 8' Leadbitter swings in a free-kick after Bikey had fouled Jones, but Hahnemann fists it clear.
    • 4' A fierce shot from Kenwyne Jones is too hot to handle for Hahnemann, though he gathers at the second attempt.
    • 2' Lita gets in an early attempt on the voley for Reading, but sees it go over the bar.
    • 1' We're underway in the first half at the Stadium of Light.
    • 14:00 Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's live text commentary of Sunderland v Reading.

  • Team Stats

    Sunderland Stats Reading
    49% Possession 50%
    14 Shots 14
    6 Shots on target 2
    0 Saves 0
    9 Corners 9
    19 Fouls 13
    3 Offsides 0
    1 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    12 Tackles 16
    159 Accurate passes 165
    49 Bad passes 46

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Sunderland
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Craig Gordon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0
      5 Nyron Nosworthy 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 11 1 3
      14 Danny Higginbotham 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 6 1 0
      6 Paul McShane 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 15 0 1
      15 Danny Collins 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 16 14 1
      19 Dwight Yorke 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 27 8 2
      4 Dickson Etuhu 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 12 4 1
      18 Grant Leadbitter 0 1 1 2 2 0 1 18 2 2
      33 Ross Wallace 1 3 2 1 1 0 0 13 5 0
      16 Michael Chopra 0 2 0 1 3 3 0 18 6 1
      17 Kenwyne Jones 1 4 2 1 3 0 0 9 5 1
      11 Daryl Murphy 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 0
      9 Anthony Stokes 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 0
      2 Greg Halford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      13 Darren Ward 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Liam Miller 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0
    • Reading
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Marcus Hahnemann 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 2 0
      22 André Stéphane Bikey 0 1 0 5 2 0 0 6 1 3
      3 Nicky Shorey 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 32 11 0
      19 Liam Rosenior 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 6 0 2
      2 Graeme Murty 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 2 2
      16 Ivar Ingimarsson 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 9 2 0
      6 Brynjar Gunnarsson 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 0 2
      15 James Harper 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 16 4 1
      10 Stephen Hunt 0 1 0 0 5 0 0 15 10 2
      12 Dave Kitson 1 4 1 2 0 0 0 13 5 1
      8 Leroy Lita 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 13 5 1
      23 Ulises de la Cruz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      20 Emerse Fae 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 8 2 1
      17 Bobby Convey 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 1 0
      32 Adam Federici 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Shane Long 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 5 1 1

  • Summary

    • 84' Kitson pulls a goal back for Reading with a header at the near post from Hunt's cross! Gordon had no chance with that!
    • 79' Reading finally make it into the Sunderland area as Shorey feeds a superb bal through to Shane Long, he brings it into his left foot, and lashes a bobbling shot straight across goal!!!
    • 47' Sunderland are two up at the very start of the second half!!! It's Ross Wallace at the back post from just a few yards out!
    • 41' Jones has missed a great chance to put Sunderland 2-0 up! Great work by Ross Wallace on the left, he beat his man, swung a fine ball into the danegr zone, Jones met it but could only head it downards into the turf and over the bar.
    • 36' Sunderland are good value for their lead but Reading are on the attack now. Kitson slips a ball into Liam Rosenior, he shoots, but Danny Collins arrives in the nick of time to make an superb saving challenge.
    • 29' Kenwyne Jones opens the scoring!!! He received the ball from Leadbitter on the right, set himself, then let loose a fierce left foot shot that went in at the near post!
    • 11' Leadbitter seizes upon an attempted headed clearance and fires in a great volley, forcing Hahnemann into an excellent save low to his left!! It comes out to Chopra on the rebound, but he can do nothing with the header.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Steve Tanner

  • Sunderland

    Manager: Roy Keane

    Captain: Dwight Yorke

    On the Field

    • Gordon
    • McShane
    • Nosworthy
    • Higginbotham
    • Collins
    • Leadbitter
    • Etuhu
    • Yorke
    • Wallace
    • Chopra
    • Jones

    Subs

    • Ward
    • Miller
    • Halford
    • Murphy
    • Stokes

    Injured

    • Varga
    • Cole
    • Richardson
    • Edwards
    • Whitehead

    Suspended

    None

  • Reading

    Manager: Steve Coppell

    Captain: Graeme Murty

    On the Field

    • Hahnemann
    • Murty
    • Bikey
    • Ingimarsson
    • Shorey
    • Rosenior
    • Gunnarsson
    • Cisse
    • Harper
    • Hunt
    • Kitson
    • Lita

    Subs

    • de la Cruz
    • Convey
    • Long
    • Federici
    • Fae

    Injured

    • Oster
    • Little

    Suspended

    None