Sunderland vs Sheffield Wednesday: Reaction after Owls are hammered at Stadium of Light
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The long period with a game due to a Covid outbreak amongst the ranks at Wednesday will surely make it a tough ask for the Owls to get back into their stride against one of the Division’s top sides and it will be interesting to see the line-up that Darren Moore goes for.
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Key Events
- Goal: Sunderland 1 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (Stewart, 12)
- Goal: Sunderland 2 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (Stewart, 36)
- Goal: Sunderland 3 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (Doyle, 39)
- Goal: Sunderland 4 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (Stewart, 58)
- Goal: Sunderland 5 Sheffield Wednesday 0 (Kimpioka, 74)
66mins: Bannan booked
Bit of frustration setting in now as Bannan gets involved in some afters with Embleton after being dispossessed. Both players booked
65mins: Another Sunderland chance
Stewart again, just nips in ahead of the defenders and this time BPF blocks
58mins: Goal Sunderland
Stewart with the hat-trick. The big striker heads in with all the time in the world after some neat play and a fine ball in from Bailey Wright. Too easy
55mins: Shout for a Sunderland penalty
Gooch goes down in the box under the challenge from Hunt. He was looking for it and just ran into Hunt before going over. Hard to tell what’s a penalty these days but there didn’t appear to be much Hunt could do
53mins: Rare bit of pressure
A couple of corners forced but they come to nothing for Wednesday. They are at least having a go of sorts but still Sunderland look fairly comfortable
49mins: Save BPF
A cross into the far post finds the already two-goal Stewart who gets his head on the end of it and Peacock-Farrell makes an excelent block to kep it at 3-0
Half Time ratings
Peacock-Farrell - 5
Hunt - 4
Palmer - 4
Dunkley - 4
Johnson - 4
Mendez-Laing - 4
Bannan - 5
Dele-Bashiru - 5
Wing - 4
Gregory - 4
Paterson - 4
45+4mins: Half time - Sunderland 3 Owls 0
Absolutely terrible. We’re a family publication so we’ll keep it as clean as that. Wednesday were dreadful in that half, bar about 8 minutes at the start. As soon as Sunderland had their first attack, the Owls fell like a Poundland Christmas tree. Defensively they were all over the place - yes there was more than a hint off offise to the first goal, but the way they reacted to that was awful, considering the experience in this team tonight.
Once the home side were in front it was game over and thankfully half tim ame when it did becasue that could have been REALLY embarrassing.
Perhaps we’re being harsh, the team haven’t played for three weeks after all but they looked like a team that’s forgotten how to play at all!
The second half will be a stroll for the Black Cats you would expect. It’ll take a miracle for this to be anything other than a comfortable home win.