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title: "Match Report: Sunderland vs West Brom"
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author: "Tyler Marriott"
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published: "2016-10-01T16:37:47Z"
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# Match Report: Sunderland vs West Brom

Sunderland leave it late to gain their second point of the campaign.

An early miss from close range by Defoe, and a high defensive back line, encouraged West Brom to gain a one goal advantage heading into Half time. Record signing Nacer Chadli got on the end of a waited pass by Matt Phillips in the 35th minute to slot the ball into the bottom left corner, betaing a diving Jordan Pickford.

The second half saw a dominant West Brom tallying their shot total to 17, even though Sunderland were in control of possession they couldn’t make it count until substitute Van Aanholt scored within the back in the 83rd minute beating goalkeeper Ben Foster, assist came from the ever present Duncan Watmore.

Sunderland are yet without their first win of the season but do move up one place to 19th, West Brom however move up to 9th

**Sunderland XI**

13 Jordan Pickford\
4 Jason Denayer\
21 Javier Manquillo\
23 Lamine Kone\
10 Wahbi Khazri (90′ Lynden Gooch)\
14 Duncan Watmore\
17 Didier Ndong\
19 Paddy Mcnair ( 72′ Jack Rodwell)\
27 Jan Kirchhoff (56′ Van Aanholt)\
18 Jermain Defoe

**Unused Substitutes**

39 George Honeyman\
12 Mika\
5 Papy Djilobdji\
22 Donald Love

**West Brom XI**

1 Ben Foster\
2 Nyom\
6 Johnny Evans\
23 Gareth McAuley\
25 Craig Dawson\
5 Claudio Yacob\
10 Matt Phillips\
14 James McClean (73′ Craig Gordon)\
24 Darren Fletcher\
9 Salomon Rondon (90′ Hal Robson-Kanu)\
22 Nacer Chadli (90′ James Morrison)

**Unused substitutes**

45 Jonathan Leko\
13 Boaz Myhill\
18 Sadio Berahino\
3 Jonas Olsson

**Sunderland**                       **Match Stats**                    **West Brom**

56\.3%                                     Possession                               43.7%\
2                                           Shots on Target                             7\
7                                                   Shots                                       17\
633                                            Touches                                   517\
426                                             Passes                                     321\
19                                               Tackles                                     17\
32                                            Clearances                                29\
6                                                Corners                                     6\
2                                                Offsides                                     1