28/02/2025
SUNDERLAND V SHEF WED
Pre match facts.
Hillsborough (Sheffield).
Capacity 39 732.
Championship- round 25.
Today 20:00pm kick off.
Referee- Will Finnie he has given out 76 yellow cards and 1 red card over the last 12 months Will Finnie has referee 32 games.
2/1 Sheffield Wednesday to win.
9/4 Draw.
13/10 Sunderland to win.
Sheffield Wednesday has scored 4 goals in their last 5 matches.
Sunderland has scored 8 goals in their last 5 matches.
Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland have not drawn any of their last 4 matches against each other.
None of the last 9 times the to teams has played against each other saw both teams score at least one goal in the 1st half.
There has been 131 meetings between the teams.
Sheffield Wednesdays has won 50.
29 draw.
Sunderland has won 52.
The last match between Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesdays was Sunday 18th August 2024 the score was 4-0 to the Mackems with a brace by Eliezer Mayenda and a goal by Luke O’Nine and Dennis Crikin.
Nicknames.
Sunderland - “The Black Cats”.
Sheffield Wednesdays- “The Owls”.
Sheffield Wednesday gets use underway under the lights at Hillsborough.
5 minutes in and it has been a scrappy start.
7 minutes in and Sheffield Wednesday are beginning the better team looking likely there are going to get the first goal off this game.
10th minute in and “The Owls” has found the first chance of the match as Barry Bannan puts a cross into the box which finds the boot of Gassama who sky’s it over the bar.
14th minute in and Sunderland get their first shot of the game with a low driven shot by Mayenda.
16th minute and the first really chance of the match with a mint low cross by Bannan who finds Josh Windass Sheffield Wednesday top goal scorer who blazes it over the bar.
Both teams has been doing their homework putting pressure on both keepers on corners.
GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!
34th minute and out of nowhere Sunderland take the lead as a long ball Leo Hjelde who finds Mayenda who has been Sheffield Wednesday worst nightmare this season.
0-1 Sunderland.
What a touch by Mayenda arm.
36th minute and a sneaky corner by Sunderland which finds Browne who hits the Sheffield Wednesday defender.
43rd minute and Sunderland has put the breaks on since the first goal.
Half time 1-0 Sunderland.
The second 45 is back underway.
GOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!
48th minute and Sheffield Wednesday find there equaliser by sloppy play by Sunderland which finds the second goal of the game and the 50th career goal by Callum Patterson with a good header Shef Wed has been the better team since the ball got kick off.
1-1.
50th minute and Patterson first big save of the game with a clean strike by Ingelsson which forces a save by Anthony Patterson.
58th minute Sunderland get a chance as roberts pass it to jobe who curls it wide.
65th minute and it is so easy for Sheffield Wednesday Sunderland can’t string a pass together.
Sunderland are not the same team without Isidor and Lee Fee.
69th minute and “The Black Cats” get there really chance of the game by great wing play by Mayenda but the ball ends out for a corner great block Ingelsson.
GOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!
70th minute WHAT A BALL WHAT A GOAL, as Dan Neil the black cats skipper wins a great midfield play who wins the foul who takes it quickly and passes it out to Hume who puts the ball on a plate for Mayenda head which is his second goal of the game.
1-2 Sunderland.
Sunderland are still looking dangerous on the counter attack it also helps bring on their star man Wilson Isidor.
83rd minute and James Beadle makes his first save of the match with a beautiful strike by Romain Mundle who would have got his name on the score sheet great save by Beadle.
88th minute and Shef Wed has a good chance but it is saved by Patterson.
7 minutes added Sunderland are hanging on for the 3 points.
1-2 Full time and Sunderland take the 3 points back to wearside.