EFL Cup · ENG · Round 1

Sunderland
1 - 1 Full time
Crewe Alexandra

Stadium of Light · Sunderland

Lineups

Sunderland4-2-3-1
NB30Bishop
ZJ41Johnson
NT25Triantis
DB6Batth
NH2Huggins
DN24Neil
CR31⚽Rigg
ET18Taylor
AP21Pritchard
JB19Bennette
AB17Ba
HD1Davies
RC2Cooney
LO6⚽Offord
CO15O'Riordan
ZW4Williams
LB28Billington
MH17Holicek
JP23Powell
JT11Tabiner
ST10Tracey
CB9Baker-Richardson
Crewe Alexandra5-3-2

Sunderland substitutes

7 Jobe Bellingham 6.1
20 Jack Clarke 6.8
44 B. Crompton 6.7
46 Bradley Dack 7.1
39 Pierre Ekwah 7.3
13 Luke O'Nien
1 Anthony Patterson
10 Patrick Roberts
43 M. Spellman

Unavailable: Ajibola Alese (injury), Corry Evans (injury), Jay Matete (injury)

Crewe Alexandra substitutes

3 Rio Adebisi 6.3
13 Tom Booth
5 Mickey Demetriou
18 Regan Griffiths
7 Chris Long 6.2
19 Owen Lunt 6.2
20 Elliott Nevitt 5.6
8 Conor Thomas
32 M. Woodcock

Match events

45+1'Luke Offord 0 - 1⚽
Second half
64'Chris Rigg 1 - 1⚽

Where to watch

We have not verified an official broadcaster listing for the EFL Cup yet, so rather than guess we leave this blank. Verified listings for the top competitions are collected in our TV Guide.

Match details

CompetitionEFL Cup
Kick-off (UTC)Tuesday, 8 August 2023, 18:45 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

3Sunderland wins1Draws0Crewe Alexandra wins

4 past meetings on record. Biggest Sunderland win: Sunderland 2–0 Crewe Alexandra (2022). Biggest Crewe Alexandra win: Crewe Alexandra 0–4 Sunderland (2021).

12 Mar 2022Sunderland 2 - 0 Crewe AlexandraLeague One
19 Oct 2021Crewe Alexandra 0 - 4 SunderlandLeague One
27 Feb 2021Crewe Alexandra 2 - 2 SunderlandLeague One
20 Oct 2020Sunderland 1 - 0 Crewe AlexandraLeague One