Daily Mirror - 19.08.2019

DAILY MIRROR 19.08.2019

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MAHLON BRAVO
Celtic’s late winner, said: “It took
us to the second half before we
got into the game properly.”
Sam Cosgrove’s extra-time
goal at Dundee set up
Aberdeen’s trip to Hearts.
Kilmarnock will entertain
Hibernian in the other quarter-
final clash.
worthwhile, just watching him
today. I thought he was
immense.”
The draw handed holders
Celtic a home tie with Partick
after Neil Lennon’s men had
needed extra-time to beat
Dunfermline 2-1.
James Forrest, scorer of
wrap up the win. Gerrard said: “It
shows we’ve got strength in
depth and people waiting in the
wings.
“But it also shows I have trust
and confidence in all the players.
“Joe Aribo made the trip
IN ASSOCIATION
WITH
SUNDERLAND 2
Willis 27, Maguire 39
PORTSMOUTH 1
Harness 22
BY CLIVE HETHERINGTON
CHRIS MAGUIRE wants
Sunderland to ensure the only
scaredy cats at the Stadium of
Light are the opposition.
As owner Stewart Donald
revealed he is “close” to securing
fresh investment in the club and
“two or three” more signings may
arrive before the transfer
deadline, the Black Cats won their
first league game of the season.
Too many draws cost Jack
Ross’s side automatic promotion
last term before they lost to
Charlton in the play-off final.
And Sunderland began the new
season with 1-1 draws against
Oxford and Ipswich.
But Maguire (top)

• making special
  mention of
  skipper Grant
  Leadbitter
  (right) – is
  demanding a
  fortress
  mentality.
  Maguire, whose
  goal separated the sides when
  Sunderland beat Portsmouth
  over two legs in last season’s
  play-off semi-final, opened his
  account for the new term.
  He said: “We want to turn this
  into a place where teams are
  scared to play. The fans get on
  our side and you can hear the
  noise and atmosphere – it’s
  brilliant. They love people
  working and putting bodies on
  the line like Grant and others do.”
  Maguire netted from close
  range after Jordan Willis levelled
  Marcus Harness’ opener. Harness,
  who scored his first goal since
  moving from Burton, said: “It’s a
  great personal milestone, but I’m
  gutted about the result.”

MAGUIRE: I’M

LOOKING FOR

FRIGHT STUFF

JERMAIN DEFOE put Rangers on

course for a 3-0 win at East Fife

to set up a League Cup quarter-

final trip to Livingston.

Boss Steven Gerrard made 10

changes to the side that knocked

Midtjylland out of the Europa

League in midweek and saw Filip

Helander and Joe Aribo (right)

GERRARD’S SWEET ON ARIBO AFTER ‘IMMENSE’ IMPACT

SCOTTISH ROUND-UP

boss Lee Bullen reckons the

free transfer from Cardiff will

cause havoc in the Champi-

onship this season.

He said: “Kadeem is playing

with a massive smile on his

face. I think he is enjoying the

role we have given him.

“We are asking him to stay

as wide as possible to try to

free himself from so he can

get at full-backs one-on-one.

“The lad Romeo is no

slouch. He is a good defender

one v one and Kadeem has

given him a really tough time

today.

“If he continues playing the

way he has been playing, he is

going to cause havoc against

many, many full-backs.”

like as a player as I have been

watching him for a while.

“My job was just to try to

make it as difficult for him as

possible. I knew he was going

to stay out wide and get on

the ball.

“He was going to

have chances to

take me on one v

one so I had to

make it as difficult

as possible.

“Did I win that

battle? We won the

game, so yeah.”

Both managers viewed

Romeo’s head-to-head with

left-winger Harris as one of

the key tussles in the game.

While Harris could not stop

Wednesday falling to a first

defeat of the season, caretaker

focus was on restricting the

Owls’ in-form winger Kadeem

Harris and delivering a sec-

ond home win of the season.

Right-back Romeo said:

“We were all raring to go at

half-time. We were ready

for the challenge, we

invited it, we were

hungry for it and

we were hungry to

hang on to the

lead.

“Jed had been

sent off, whether it

was a red or not we

needed to get him out of the

s*** and that is what we did.

“I’ve said in the past our

analysis leaves no stone un-

turned so I knew what I was

coming up against.

“I know what Kadeem is

Romeo: We

fought to

get out of

the ****

after Jed’s

red horror

BY STEVE JUDGE

MAHLON ROMEO took

great delight in how

Millwall’s 10 men pulled

together to get Jed Wal-

lace out of the sticky stuff.

Lions winger Wallace was

sent off just six minutes after

Matt Smith headed in their

37th-minute winner from a

Connor Mahoney corner.

Romeo admitted he did not

see the incident where

Wallace was ruled to have

caught Sheffield Wednesday

midfielder Kieran Lee with a

studs-up challenge. His only

MILLWALL 1

Smith 37

SHEFF WED 0

MOTM JAKE COOPER (MILLWALL)

MOTM JORDAN WILLIS (SUNDERLAND)

MILLWALL: Bialkowski 7,

Romeo 7, Cooper 8, Pearce

6, M. Wallace 7, J Wallace 5,

Williams 7, Thompson 7,

Mahoney 7(Leonard 74, 6),

O’Brien 6 (Ferguson 83),

Smith (Bradshaw 52, 6) 7

SHEFF WED: Westwood 6,

Iorfa 6 (Bannan 46, 6),

Borner 7, Lee 6 (Rhodes 66,

6), Palmer 6 (Luongo 59, 6),

Reach 7, Lee 6, Hutchinson

6, Harris 6, Fletcher 6,

Murphy 6

30% POSSESSION 70%

2 SHOTS ON TARGET^9

1 SHOTS OFF TARGET^8

6 CORNERS^4

3 OFFSIDE^3

6 FOULS^16

0 1 CARDS 1 0

MATCH STATS

REF: Michael Salisbury ATT: 29,140

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Matt Smith runs to

celebrate the goal

before Jed Wallace

was sent off (right)

SUNDERLAND: J McLaughlin 7,

O’Nien 6, Ozturk 7, Willis 8, C

McLaughlin 5, Gooch 6, Power 6,

Leadbitter 7, McGeady 7 (Grigg 81),

Maguire 7 (Hume 87), McNulty 5

(Wyke 49, 6).

PORTSMOUTH: MacGillivray 6,

Walkes 5 (McCrorie 73, 5), Downing

6, Burgess 6, Brown 6, Naylor 6,

Harness 7, Cannon 5 (Evans 63, 6),

Close 6, Curtis 5 (Harrison 62, 5),

Marquis 5.

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