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01:30So the man in the picture at the moment, because there's not a great deal wrong with Coventry City at the moment, I think they've been absolutely excellent in the second 45. There was no panic. They kept to their game plan.
01:41And ultimately, one of those many balls in the box pay dividends. Great goal. They've got the momentum, but so often I think in this scenario of playoffs, we see just a bit of a reset between 90 minutes and extra time.
01:55Can Sunderland get a platform? Can they stop Coventry for one? But also, can they find the ability to pose them one or two problems? Because that has completely evaporated as the game's gone on tonight.
02:11So last minute instructions are being dished out.
02:19And the formalities, there'll be a handshake again, a coin toss again to decide who kicks off and which way and all of that.
02:38Almost as if 90 minutes had never happened. Their legs won't feel like those 90 minutes never happened.
02:46It will be Coventry City who get the first period of extra time underway.
02:52And off we go. Momentum, maybe, with Coventry, maybe.
03:09Actually, right, trying to get involved in that and Dan Barrow has put it behind.
03:12I was going to say, Sam, often the tempo drops in extra time after a frantic enter in 90 minutes, but an early first-minute corner might ensure that we get off on a pacey, tense start in this extra period, too.
03:26Yeah, we've got all these potential storylines, and I think there's some really interesting players yet to come from the bench.
03:32No one more so than Romain Mundell, who all the Sunderland fans are so excited about having back.
03:37In goes this corner kickback from a hamstring bundle. It's J. De Silva here for Coventry City. Matt Grimes can put it back in.
03:48Or use De Silva again, which is the option he decides upon. Sakamoto.
04:01A little bit of space here. Sakamoto.
04:04Five in the middle, looking for position. Sakamoto.
04:10Daniel is with him.
04:13De Silva.
04:15De Silva's ball in is a good one.
04:17And I've got something on it.
04:19And Avak back in. Really good start to the period of extra time for Coventry City. Sakamoto's header is wide.
04:27But Frank Lampard would have enjoyed this.
04:29Yeah, lovely ball in. J. De Silva from the left-hand side.
04:31And I kind of touched on it in the first half.
04:33It's almost like you need to miss out Dan Ballard with your deliveries.
04:37And in doing that, they found an equaliser through F1 Mason Clarke.
04:41And again there, it's a little bit deeper.
04:43It's Bellingham who's challenging with Sakamoto.
04:45He can't work it onto the target.
04:47But, oh, it has been so good across the two games.
04:50He's conceded two cross goals, though.
04:53So, there is a...
04:55If you can keep it away from him, there's an opportunity again for Coventry Air Elite.
05:04Daniel is parted company from the ball.
05:08Well, the substitution is incoming pretty shortly.
05:17Romain Mundell, the 22-year-old, whose last appearance was back on April the 5th because of a hamstring injury.
05:23Sakamoto.
05:45Sakamoto.
05:53Van Eywijk.
05:56Had you right, had he brought that down, just might have had an opportunity to get a shot away, but he didn't get it down quickly enough.
06:04To Silva.
06:04Eccles for Grimes.
06:30well the first four minutes of extra time if anything have been even more dominated by
06:54coventry than much of what went before the balance of the game is very much in their favor hence i
07:02guess the change yeah and this could this prove could this could prove to be vital i mean patrick
07:08roberts has not had his best night going forward as was the case in the first leg and mandel was
07:15superb i think in his absence earlier in the season and this could just energize the crowd and
07:21it's much needed at this point because it's it's one-way traffic i think from mason clark who just
07:27got penalized for that for the handball he's been a real difference maker for coventry not only with
07:33the goal but i just think so purposeful in everything he's done on the left hand side committing players
07:39he's wanted to take people on i always feel extra time is prime for that the forward players go and
07:46try something when legs are tiring go and take people on commit people in the final third it
07:51doesn't matter on occasion if you give the ball away so sunday to make two substitutions getting on
07:59mundle and rick coventry just the one necklace for sheep
08:09here is eckles
08:17sakamoto
08:18mandel was very effective his first contribution since coming on circuit
08:30lefay here assessing his options chose a good one dan neil will help it on its way
08:38mayenda moving down the middle couldn't quite get onto it better look yeah tripping play lovely spread from
08:45benzo lefay good spot and a really good ball in as well which required a one-touch finish for the
08:50running mayenda just a little too heavy
08:56sunderland have never lost a home game in a playoff semi-final
09:00dan neil
09:14well controlled hume decent little ball as well the deflection sees eckles clattering away downfield and
09:24good starting position from patterson to make sure right wasn't going to get onto it
09:30brought down neatly now he's in on goal lefay again and he couldn't quite get it into mayenda big chance
09:42they haven't had many and that's a big one
09:46he's just drifted centrally the last few moments ends on lefay and he must have thought he was better
09:52place trying to square that rather than whipping the right foot their foot towards the target
09:59to play square and it was a brilliant recovery challenge from jay de silva
10:03lefay then losing out in a tussle with eckles
10:17rick's on wide right so lefay is in fact supporting mayenda in attack now yeah still
10:24really a 4-4-2 isn't it with mundel left
10:37and that's sneaked through but wonder is there
10:42to clear away downfield only as far as grimes for coventry city
10:46no idea how many times grimes has touched the ball in this game but it i would hazard to guess
10:52it's more than anybody else
10:53it's honest to kitchen eight minutes of the second of the first period of extra time have gone by
11:08already here's josh eckles for coventry city
11:14clearly in that 90 minutes and they believed in the process there was never any sense of rising
11:22panic about coventry's play they knew that they were dominant and felt that in the end
11:26the opportunity would come and it did yeah and it was probably just alleviating one or two little
11:33errors from the first game and they knew they probably had the the ability to win this game
11:37eckles was it deflected
11:45i think it's the sprawling 09 just recognized there was a gap there
11:48they came across and able to get something on the ball
11:55decent strike
12:04not quite at the can't watch stage but some sutherland fans maybe not too far from it
12:10you know
12:16grimes with the corner kick sakamoto into the crowd
12:24to silver that's dangerous paterson did well thomas was with him and that looked awkward just keep an
12:33Don't lie on Van Eywijk here.
12:35It's flicked off Mundels here.
12:48Up to 100 minutes.
12:49Near enough.
12:51Nothing can separate these two just now.
13:00And from Mason Clarke getting through.
13:03A Hume challenge.
13:04And he then has shoved him over.
13:06Right on the edge of the penalty area.
13:08Andy Madley gives the free kick.
13:10Hume is furious.
13:14But I think that's the second free kick he's given away in this game in similar circumstances.
13:18Well, the skill is beautiful from Mason Clarke.
13:22And he's getting stronger when all-around players are getting weaker and rattled.
13:28Certainly weaker physically.
13:29And Mason Clarke just needs to keep feeding him on that left-hand side.
13:34He's so bright, so full of running.
13:37I think once more, Andy Madley's been almost faultless tonight.
13:41Good decision.
13:42Right on the edge of the box.
13:43There is a palpable sense of impending doom around the stadium of light for Sunderland because Coventry's dominance in this first period of extra time is clear for all to see.
13:59And it's very uncomfortable for Sunderland.
14:02Thomas is lurking in there.
14:07Grimes.
14:07No out ball.
14:11It's driven back in by Van Eyweijk.
14:14Taken away from Eccles.
14:15Collected by Sakamoto.
14:17It's a good challenge.
14:18It's not a good challenge.
14:19Dan Neal felt he won the ball.
14:21The referee, Andy Madley, does not agree.
14:23It's a free kick.
14:26Spoke too soon.
14:27Looked like a good challenge, didn't it?
14:29Watching it live.
14:32Yeah, it's the follow-through, isn't it?
14:34It's the type of challenge you can't get away with in the modern game.
14:38Gets a fair chunk of the ball, but doesn't like the collision that comes next.
14:43And that's fair enough, I think, on reflection.
14:45Thunders into it.
14:46Gets enough of Sakamoto for that to be the free kick award.
14:51More defending to do for the home side.
14:59Grimes free kick.
15:22It's worth a hit.
15:24Kitchen did, but off target.
15:26Yeah, they're reacting really well, I think, to second balls.
15:30Those little knockdowns around the 18-yard box, they're getting on them,
15:33and they're able to recycle, feed it back wide here.
15:37It would be better than that.
15:38They get a really fine shooting opportunity, which Kitching wastes.
15:42Tired, maybe.
15:44Unable just to keep that concentration on the technique.
15:48Luka 9 for Sunderland.
16:12Humes forward ball.
16:13Mahindra on the turn.
16:17That's a really good challenge.
16:18Very good challenge by Eccles.
16:21Home fans didn't think so.
16:25That did look like a ball-winning challenge without the man-taking follow-through.
16:30Better from Sunderland, though.
16:39It's given away by Dan Neal.
16:41You could see what he was trying to do, but the pass didn't quite find its mark.
16:44They have got a throw-in, though.
16:45Dan Neal be in a hurry to take it.
16:49Mundell here for Sunderland.
16:50That's a great ball-in.
16:52That's asking a big question of Kitching.
16:54He's put it over his own Barford corner.
16:56Super ball-in.
16:57Fantastic.
16:58And there's been signs.
17:01A little bit more slickness in Sunderland's play.
17:03Zipping the passes.
17:04Good decision-making.
17:06And that's just a fantastic delivery.
17:09It can't be any better, really.
17:11And it's a wonderful headed clearance from Kitching in such a difficult position.
17:15Aswan, the Stadium of Light, get to their feet for this Sunderland corner kick.
17:24A few seconds of the first period to go.
17:26Enzo Lefe to the back post.
17:31Moneevac under a bit of pressure from Bellingham.
17:33It's a Sunderland throw.
17:50Here's Lefe for Sunderland.
17:52They really needed this spell.
17:55That's a lovely ball which is touched down to Bellingham.
17:57De Silva's done well.
18:03Grimes pokes it away.
18:07Goal scorer Ephraim Mason-Clark is there for Coventry City.
18:11Here's Grimes again.
18:12And Eccles.
18:15And De Silva.
18:16And we're into one added minute at the end of the first period of extra time at the Stadium of Light.
18:22Ninth's header for Bellingham.
18:48Mendes with a little slip at Lefe's there.
18:52Here's Mundell.
18:53Serkin trying to provide an overlapping run for Romain Mundell to use.
19:00And Andy Madley blows his whistle.
19:03Not quite all Coventry because Sunderland had a good last three or four minutes in that first period of extra time.
19:10No breakthrough though.
19:11It is still 1-0 Coventry City on the night.
19:16It is 2-2 on aggregate with the second tense period of extra time to come.
19:23And of course it is 2-3 on aggregate with the third time to come.
19:32And it is 2-1 on aggregate with the first time to come.
19:35And it is 1-0 to 5-0.
19:37And it is 2-0.
19:39It is 2-0.
19:40And it is 2-0.
20:41For this extra time period, who knows what will follow that?
20:47Either celebrations or spot kicks.
20:50It takes it out of you, this supporting lock.
20:58My guess is the last train from Sunderland to Coventry went some time ago.
21:13So here we are.
21:27A quarter past ten in the in-local time.
21:33And we still don't know.
21:35Some period of extra time underway.
21:37Kicking from left to right.
21:42In front of their huge hordes of desperate fans.
21:50Desperate for another trip to the Wembley Arch.
21:53Where Coventry went a couple of years ago and suffered serious heartbreak.
21:58Losing a penalty shootout in the playoff final to Luton Town.
22:03One of them will be back to face Sheffield United in 11 days time.
22:10But who?
22:11A nine with a forward ball.
22:20It's a good run by Rigg.
22:24Intelligently left actually by Mayendo who would have been offside.
22:27Le Fay to Dan Neal.
22:31Romain Mundell here.
22:32Five in the box Sunderland.
22:34Mundell.
22:35Le Fay.
22:36Mundell wasn't expecting it to come back to him.
22:38And Sakamoto has seen it behind for the goal kick.
22:42Yeah, it feels like there's been the recognition from the crowd that
22:45they're going to need their vociferous support across this 15 minutes.
22:50Not only in the times where they're not going to have the ball
22:53because they've had to do that hell of a lot tonight.
22:55Tonight, but now I think there's a bit of optimism from the last couple of minutes
22:59of the first half of Extra Time.
23:00Two incredibly talented young players on either flank.
23:04Can they get Coventry a little disrupted, a little disjointed
23:10and maybe feed those two 1v1?
23:12Can they be the architects of some Sunderland opportunities?
23:18Wright beating Bellingham in the air.
23:20Here's Sirkin for Sunderland.
23:25A nine.
23:35Positive little foray forward from the central defender.
23:38Rewarded with a throwing.
23:39The pass was always on for Rigg.
23:56Rigg did brilliantly!
23:58And blocked!
24:00Mundell's shot blocked by Eccles.
24:02Standing right in front of Wilson.
24:04So good from Josh Eccles.
24:07You think that he's going to score.
24:09Mundell, it's a perfect cutback.
24:11Arised perfectly on cue and helps his goalkeeper out.
24:15No end.
24:15What a block.
24:16Bellingham.
24:21Bellingham.
24:37Neil forward.
24:43it's a corner kick
24:47what a brilliant response
24:52I thought the opportunity had maybe gone there
24:54I think he's actually looking for my end
24:56and it turns into the perfect
24:58cutback for the arriving
25:00Mundell, it's a little bit
25:02of good fortune how it ends up
25:04doing his feet
25:06Joshua Eccles, superb
25:08he's been very good since he's come on
25:09Sunderland's corner
25:12pushed away by
25:14Wilson
25:15a nine
25:18angled that header well, it was lashed by
25:20Hume into the crowd
25:22his grinds, grinds was
25:24just caught by
25:25a sliding rig challenge after the ball had
25:28gone and the yellow card is coming out here for
25:30Rigg
25:30it's the easiest decision of the
25:34night I think
25:35it's really late from Rigg
25:38and I thought for a moment it was
25:40essentially one of those Sunderland players that had
25:42already been yellow carded
25:43thankfully for them
25:44it was up the tube
25:45but they've
25:48started this second period of extra time
25:50really well
25:50the home side
25:51and Mason Clark
25:54who scored the only goal of the night
25:55so far
25:56what's the reason
25:58we're playing added time
25:59extra time
26:00is withdrawn
26:02yeah it can only be
26:04the injury
26:05issue of the last few weeks
26:07fatigue
26:08because he's been magnificent
26:09I think we have
26:14Thomas Asante
26:16on now
26:17and
26:18Ellis Sims waiting in the wings
26:19he's got great options
26:21Frank Lampard
26:21and he's utilised one of them there
26:23you know
26:24potential match winners
26:25people who have done it
26:26season in season out
26:27in the championship
26:28that's contrasting
26:30to what Sunderland have got now
26:32it's in reserve
26:33sorry
26:35Thomas Asante
26:36who started the
26:37first thing
26:38as their central striker
26:40it's a free kick
26:43to Sunderland
26:44and you just feel
26:44the pendulum is with them
26:46at the moment
26:46Lafay did well
26:49Bellingham
26:52Bellingham
26:52Neil for Sunderland
27:0610 minutes
27:11to go
27:12go
27:36go
27:38go
27:40go
27:40go
27:41go
27:42go
27:42a nine
27:55bellingham
28:04it's going to be picked off and it is but thomas asante's got his footwork right
28:09and he plays it in two had you right and that's a good challenge and the nine's done really well done
28:16really well magnificent defending i think if that's in the first minutes had you right just
28:25pushes that past him on the left side and he's gone oh nine at this late stage can probably
28:30match him for energy for appetite wonderful defending vital moments
28:39and the seconds tick by
28:58thomas with a header eccles with a
29:06swipe over his shoulder in the direction of sakamoto serkins dealt with that
29:11and everybody's dealt with that and sunderland had the throw
29:15in only seven or eight minutes but it's been a real show of resilience from sunderland
29:20the start of this second half of extra time real endeavor but more quality than we've probably
29:27seen across the tie on the ball they're finding passes they're moving it for the first time
29:33coventry looking leggy from somewhere they found the resourcefulness to respond sunderland
29:48it's dan ballard
29:55a little over 46 and a half thousand people here
30:00absolutely gripped by what they're watching bellingham
30:04nice feet from la fey working inside the penalty area good block
30:16ends la fey again
30:17neil urged to shoot did shoot block by thomas
30:29ballard
30:32hugh
30:41good challenge on the fake
30:52very tired looking grimes as mr santi tries to get forward lost possession fairly won
30:59it's a nice pass into rig from neil it's a decent ball to the back post well defended
31:08well finally they've had to do something with that to corner to sunderland
31:12yeah terrific defending it's almost as if sunderland there's this will to get the ball to mumble over on
31:17that left hand side so much so that sakamoto's just gone back in almost sitting as a right wing back
31:24tracking his every move had to come out the other side this is the previous
31:28attempt you could see his left foot i think maybe just turning over his ankle
31:32echoes in pursuit of uh circuit as he looked to strike
31:36but i think he wants to get the medical staff to do their work
31:49before deciding exactly what change he is going to make eccles is back on his feet but he's clearly
31:55not moving very comfortably the substitute of course he came on for ben sheath
32:15that was a great block that was the eccles block from mundle brilliant work that was yeah i think it's
32:20thomas behind him on the line who possibly would have had his weight on his right hand side and not
32:26been able to react to that shot if it had been directed towards the corner
32:32so the substitute is to be substituted hobbling away only four minutes to go
32:41jamie allen will slot in alongside grimes
32:56well coventry controlled the first period of extra time sunderland have controlled the second
33:03coventry didn't score in that period can sunderland score when they're on top it's their corner
33:11delivered to the near post the intention was that it would be
33:20flicked on by romaine mundle but it's actually flick wide
33:32well they think this is tense we're three minutes away from penalties
33:48yeah they've responded to the to the performance of the players it's been a tough night for them i felt
33:55the strategy was to remain the same it was going to be incredibly taxing on the players and ultimately
34:00they paid the price but they've responded and you know i think getting mundle out there for one rig
34:05as well the excitement levels have just risen
34:07and now i'm with the clearance away downfield thomas dealing with a slightly awkwardly bouncing ball
34:23the ball is uh spinning away ballooning toward sundown's goalkeeper anthony patterson
34:44my feeling is the goalkeepers probably quite like shootouts more than outfield players
34:55rare that they'll have the finger of blame point at them if they end up on the losing side
35:00they're more likely they're more likely to be a hero than a zero
35:11funny bags clearance away downfield did actually find how she might when perhaps it
35:17shouldn't have done his crimes for coventry
35:1970 seconds or so to play
35:33liam kitchen for matt grinds maybe there's time for one last foray forward to silver had it taken away
35:41from him thomas asante thomas asante took a bubble took a deflection it's a coventry city corner he
35:50almost just tried to go through his marker got the deflection off ballard but took it spinning wider
35:55the target but he's just shifted it inside one more and really worked the center half
35:59well we are very close to the can't watch stage
36:15if this goes in coventry city will be at wembley in 11 days time
36:22in goes that grimes corner kick up go the heads over goes the ball
36:26off the head of thomas it's a goal kick to sutherland
36:35and we're going to have two added minutes
36:56and sutherland making one last substitution dennis circuit
37:04makes way
37:05so
37:15here's what beautiful left foot circuit but suggest that shield could possibly be in the five yeah
37:35Hume
37:40Le Fay
37:41Hume
37:42Hume's cross is good
37:44defensive end also good from Thomas
37:47Sunderland have a corner
37:49and there's just about
37:51time to win this tie
37:53just about
37:54he's got beautiful delivery in that right boot
37:57Hume but that's impressive
37:59his stage last
38:00moments of extra time to find that
38:03quality it was a yard out from being a peach
38:05Enzo Le Fay will
38:11take this
38:12everything hanging now
38:25on this corner kick Enzo Le Fay
38:27delivers right into the next
38:29Ballard
38:30Sunderland
38:45are going to Wembley
38:48and Coventry City
38:50are beaten
38:51in the most incredible
38:55circumstances
38:56as Dan Ballard
38:59wins this semi-final
39:01well clearly
39:05there is no
39:07one more fitting
39:08in a Sunderland shirt
39:10to get that winning goal
39:11the story
39:12the games he's missed
39:14and the performance level
39:16that he has produced
39:17at the most important time
39:19not only that now
39:21to be the hero
39:23to come up with that moment
39:24he has headed everything
39:25I'm not sure
39:27it's the most clean
39:28of headers
39:29I think he's off his back
39:31but it doesn't matter
39:32he ricochets off the underside
39:34of the bar
39:34and into the net
39:35and what a moment
39:36actually stupid
39:38he does get his head
39:39to the ball
39:40and it's
39:41into the place
39:43where the goalkeeper
39:44just cannot do anything
39:45about it
39:46what a moment for him
39:47what a moment for Sunderland
39:49you could not
39:54make it up
39:56Dan Ballard
39:58for Sunderland
40:00well a long
40:10and miserable summer
40:13beckons for Coventry City
40:14in 11 days time
40:18it will be all
40:20red and white
40:21at Wembley
40:22Sunderland
40:23against Sheffield
40:24in 80
40:25that's going to be
40:29tough to get over
40:30for those supporters
40:31in sky blue
40:32what a moment
40:34for the home side
40:35they've had to fight
40:37they've wrestled back
40:38a little bit of control
40:39in the second period
40:42of extra time
40:43and they've been rewarded
40:44with a moment
40:46of ecstasy
40:47what a moment
40:48for Ballard
40:48what a performance
40:49from him
40:50what a story
40:51well it is
40:54immensely cruel
40:55but there has to be
40:56a winner
40:57and there has to be
40:58a loser
40:58I've no idea
41:00how many seconds
41:01there are to play
41:02but
41:02there's your answer
41:05Sunderland
41:06are at Wembley
41:07Dan Ballard
41:10has scored
41:12the winning goal
41:13in this
41:15playoff
41:16semi-final
41:17second leg
41:18with the last
41:19meaningful touch
41:20of the game
41:21in extra time
41:23delirium
41:25at the stadium
41:27of light
41:28for those
41:29from Wearside
41:30utter despair
41:33for those
41:35from the city
41:36of Coventry
41:37Regis
41:37Lebris
41:38have done it
41:40Sam Parkin
41:41what a night
41:42incredible
41:42just the playoffs
41:44in a nutshell
41:44a team not at their best
41:46certainly not tonight
41:48outplayed for large
41:49portions
41:50yet they're the ones
41:52going to Wembley
41:53and one of the
41:54standout players
41:55across the two games
41:56gets his reward
41:57through a couple
41:58of astonishing
41:59performances
41:59and it's going to
42:00sting for Coventry
42:01but I think the reality
42:03is that they've come
42:04a hell of a long way
42:05and they'll
42:06end this season
42:07I think with
42:08you know
42:10real pride
42:10and they should do
42:12Frank Lampard's
42:13reputation restored
42:14and I'm sure
42:14they'll be stronger
42:15for it next season
42:16in the long term
42:17but it's Sunderland's
42:18moment
42:18and what
42:20an incredible
42:21night it's been
42:22and we'll see
42:24what happens
42:25at Wembley
42:26between two
42:27you know
42:27enormous clubs
42:29with the potential
42:30of returning
42:30to the Premier League
42:31it's a final
42:33to say that
42:34it's been
42:35a semi-final
42:37which went
42:38to the very
42:39last second
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