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Commentary

4¹ MOUKOKO's header was well saved by the Birmingham City 'keeper. 7¹ GOAL!! A long ball from LORRAN down the middle was collected by the lurking KONATÉ who placed a deadly shot into the roof of the net. (1-0 Sunderland) 9¹ KONATÉ ran onto a great ball from MOUKOKO but pulled his shot wide of the goal. 17¹ BELLINGHAM cautioned for a poor foul. 26¹ GOAL!! A two-fisted punch from the 'keeper enabled BRADLEY to force the ball into the empty net. (2-0 Sunderland) 29¹ MOUKOKO rasped the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his left. 30¹ A poor challenge on MOUKOKO by CHONG results in a booking. 32¹ LAVIA flicked a simple chance past the lefthand post. 35¹ A cross from LAVIA left KONATÉ in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot. 44¹ SIMÓN saved a swerving effort from CHONG. 46¹ GOAL!! A neat one-two left BRADLEY clear and he made no mistake by floating the ball past the oncoming Birmingham City 'keeper. (3-0 Sunderland) 0² ESTUPIÑÁN dribbled round PAVARD and rattled a weak shot well wide. 2² GOAL!! A cross from LORRAN was flicked away by ROBERTS only for LAVIA to volley the ball back into the box for MOUKOKO to force over the line. (4-0 Sunderland) 3² A shot from ESTUPIÑÁN was smothered by the 'keeper. 5² PHILLIPS receives a yellow card by the ref. 7² GOAL!! Some useful work by BACUNA on the right, left CHONG yards clear, and he stepped inside the Sunderland 'keeper and blasted the ball into the net. (4-1 Sunderland) 9² Uncertainty in the Birmingham City defence enabled KONATÉ to hit an effort over. 20² BRADLEY beat three Birmingham City players and thundered an effort inches over. 31² A great effort from MOORE scraped the outside of the post. 32² BELLINGHAM made space on the left and touched the ball to FRIEND who clipped the ball wide. 35² MOORE chipped the ball to BRADLEY who fired it over the bar. 43² The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from PHILLIPS fell just wide.

Sunderland   League position: 4 Home league form: OXWW Overall league form: LWOWXLWW Formation: 4-3-2-1

Line-ups Unai SIMÓN 7½ 1 6  Egil SELVIK Connor BRADLEY 7  2 6½ Maxime COLIN(c) Theo HERNÁNDEZ 8  3 5½ George FRIEND Roméo LAVIA 7  4 6½ Jordan JAMES (c)Benjamin PAVARD 8  5 6  Nathaniel PHILLIPS Matthijs DE LIGT 6½ 6 6  Marc ROBERTS (f)Youssoufa MOUKOKO 8  7 6  Juninho BACUNA Chris RIGG 8  8 6½ Tahith CHONG (p)Karim KONATÉ 7½ 9 6  Óscar ESTUPIÑÁN(p) LORRAN Lucas 7  10 6½ Jobe BELLINGHAM(f) Mikey MOORE 7  11 5½ Scott HOGAN Luke Murray Manager Jéremy DOKU    12    Ivan SUNJIC Victor OSIMHEN    13    Zach JEACOCK Antoine GRIEZMANN    14    George HALL LUIS GUILHERME Lira    15    Niall HUGGINS HÉCTOR FORT García    16    Gary GARDNER

Birmingham City   League position: 16 Away league form: LLLL Overall league form: LWWLWLLW Formation: 4-3-3

Sunderland go through to the next round

Statistics

Sunderland 4 Birmingham City 1 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 52,593, Stadium: Stadium of Light, Referee: Nigel Miller 6) Konaté 7¹, Bradley 26¹, Bradley 46¹, Moukoko 2² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Chong 7²           Bellingham 17¹, Chong 30¹, Phillips 5² 1 5 9 17 2 5 6 5 10 3 16 8 2 4 61% 39% ¶ Man of the match: Theo Hernández ¶