FA Cup 3rd ROUND
Venue: REEBOK STADIUM
BOLTON WANDERERS 2 SUNDERLAND 2
Scorers: Chung-Yong Lee, Sordell; Wickham, Gardiner
My first FA Cup match since January 2000 - when Carlisle took on Arsenal - and due to some dire defending by Sunderland it turned into a pretty good match. Just after half time Bolton went two nil up which spurred the Black Cats into action. However Bolton's stand in keeper, Lonergan had a stand out performance and denied Sunderland several times before substitute, Conor Wickham give them a lifeline.
Eventually Sunderland's pressure was rewarded with an equaliser - a cracking effort from the edge of the box from Gardiner - with 15 minutes to go.
Although there were only 12,000 at the match Sunderland took up their full allocation filling one end of the Reebok.
Our seats were excellent - middle of the top tier behind the goal in which three of the goals went in.
Bolton Wanderers
- 24 Lonergan 03 Alonso 12 Knight 18 Ricketts 23 Riley (Mears) 08 Andrews 10 Petrov 21 Pratley 27 Lee 09 Ngog (Eagles) 19 Sordell (K Davies)
Sunderland
- 22 Mignolet, 02 Bardsley, 19 Bramble, 24 Cuellar (Wickham), Rose (Colback), 07 Larsson, 08 Gardner, 15 Vaughan, 21 Johnson, 23 McClean, 26 Fletcher
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