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Welcome to LIVE coverage of the North-East derby between Sunderland and Newcastle from the Stadium of Light!

Premier League / Matchday 2
Stadium of Light / 20.08.2011
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Alex Chick

Updated 20/08/2011 at 13:27 GMT


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FULL TIME - Sunderland 0-1 Newcastle. A lively and entertaining North East derby ends with victory for Newcastle. Sunderland had plenty of possession, but failed to create many real chances - Newcastle produced one moment of genius, and that's what won it.
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Ferdinand concedes a corner for Newcastle, but Tiote and Gutierrez are happy to keep the ball in the corner and kill time.
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Sunderland are hurling everything into attack, but still failing to create clear chances. Newcastle just sit back and soak it up.
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Sessegnon crosses from the right and Gyan puts a header just wide of the far post. Sunderland are determined to go down fighting.
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Five minutes' stoppage time - this could be tasty.
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Good save Mignolet - Newcastle substitute Gosling gets on the end of an Ameobi knock-down and the Sunderland keeper hurls himself at the attacker's feet to smother the chance.
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Ouch - a horrible studs-up challenge on Fabricio Coloccini earns Bardsley a second yellow card, and his derby is over.
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Obertan off, Dan Gosling on.
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Cabaye off for Newcastle, Mike Williamson on.
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Newcastle know that Sunderland still pose plenty of threat, so they are hedging their bets, defending stoutly but always looking for a counter-attacking chance.
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The one Sunderland fans have been waiting for - highly-rated teenager Connor Wickham comes on for Larsson.
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Close to a Sunderland equaliser - Bardsley crosses to Gardner, who is off-balance as he heads the ball but it is enough to give Newcastle keeper Krul a scare.
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The tempo of the game drops a little bit - I'm not surprised, it looks extremely warm there and the pace has been pretty relentless so far.
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Ryan Taylor's goal means Sunderland have now failed to keep a clean sheet against their biggest rivals for 23 games in a row.
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Barton has the ball in the Sunderland net but both he and Ameobi are clearly standing in off-side positions.
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Newcastle seem happy to slow things down and frustrate the home side - do they fancy their chances of a second goal on the counter-attack?
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Good save by Krul, diving down to block a Sessegnon cross. There's plenty of life in this game yet.
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Richardson off, Dong-Won Ji on.
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Ahmed Elmohamady off, Craig Gardner on.