Round Up - Weekend of 24th February 2017

Friday, 24 February 2017

Championship

Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-2 Birmingham City

Matt Doherty made his 150th appearance for Wolverhampton Wanderers

Saturday, 25 February 2017

Premier League

Everton 2-0 Sunderland

Darron Gibson was booked for the first time this season. Before this, the midfielder hadn't been booked since May 2016

West Bromwich Albion 2-1 Bournemouth

James McClean came off the bench and was booked for the first time in 2017

Championship

Aston Villa 1-0 Derby County

Cyrus Christie was booked for the fifth time this season

Brentford 4-2 Rotherham

Anthony Forde scored his first goal in the Championship, exactly 200 days after his last goal on Tuesday, 9 August 2016

Newcastle Utd 2-2 Bristol City

Ciaran Clark's late equaliser means the defender has scored more than two goals in the same season for the first time since 2010/11

Preston North End 2-1 QPR

Aiden McGeady's equaliser (his fifth goal in the Championship) won Sky Sports' goal of the Day

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Brighton and Hove Albion 3-0 Reading

Liam Kelly made his 25th career appearance

League 1

Coventry 1-3 Swindon Town

Kevin Foley was booked for the first time in 2017

Gillingham 2-1 Southend United

Emmanuel Osadebe's first start since November (his first appearance in a month) was the defender's 25th appearance in League One
In his 200th start for Southend United, Michael Timlin was booked for the fifth time this season

Oldham 0-0 Millwall

Shaun Williams was booked for the tenth time this season and is suspended for the next three games

Peterborough 3-1 Rochdale

The sending off of both Donal McDermott and Joe Rafferty was the first time two Irish players were sent off in the same game since Marc Wilson and Glenn Whelan were sent off for Stoke against Newcastle in December 2013. This was McDermott's first red card of his career, and Rafferty's third - his first since May 2015
Keith Keane made his 25th appearance for Rochdale

Port Vale 1-2 Bradford City

Josh Cullen made his 50th appearance for Bradford City, coincidentally this was also the midfielder's 50th career start

Sheffield United 2-0 Bolton

Conor Wilkinson was booked for the fifth time this season in his first start since October

League 2

Barnet 0-1 Cambridge United

Gerry McDonagh made his first start for Cambridge United
Jake Carroll was booked for the fifth time this season

Carlisle United 0-3 Portsmouth

John O'Sullivan was booked for the fifth time this season

Colchester 2-1 Hartlepool

Owen Garvan made his 50th appearance for Colchester

Mansfield Town 2-1 Newport Co.

Patrick Hoban returned to to the Mansfield starting XI for his first start since January 10th

Morecambe 1-0 Grimsby

Gavin Gunning was booked for the fifth time this season

Scottish Premier League

St Johnstone 0-2 Kilmarnock

Conor Sammon scored his second goal of the season, before this the striker had not scored since August 20th

Sunday, 26 February 2017

Premier League

Tottenham 4-0 Stoke City

Glenn Whelan was shown his fourth yellow card of the season, this was the midfielder's first booking September 24th

Round Up - Week of 21st February 2017

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Championship

Sheffield Wednesday 1-2 Brentford

John Egan scored his fourth goal of the season, five months after his last goal in September

League 1

Gillingham 2-2 AFC Wimbledon

Bradley Garmston's injury and subsequent substitution means he joins David Mooney, Kevin Doyle and Samir Carruthers as substitutes who were introduced and substituted in the same game

Peterborough 1-4 Southend United

Michael Timlin's first goal of the season was also the midfielder's 15th goal for Southend

League 2

Colchester 1-0 Wycombe Wanderers

Sean Murray's first start for Colchester was the winger's 25th appearance of the season


DAvid Mooney
Kevin Doyle
Samir Carruthers
Bradley Garmston - all introduced and substituted this season

January 2017 Appearance Stats

Irish Abroad players appearance statistics for January 2017:

Wins
Matt Doherty started four wins for Wolves in January, one more than any other player

Draws
Stephen Gleeson started three draws in the first month of 2017

Losses
Walsall's Anthony Forde started five losses in January, no other player started more than three

Starts/Completed Games
Forde and Doherty are two of seven players to start six games in January - Stephen Henderson, Damien Delaney, Richard Keogh, Liam Kelly, Conor Hourihane, Forde, and Doherty - with Henderson, Keogh, Doherty, and Hourihane completing 90 minutes in each one

Substitutions/Introductions
Forde was also substituted more than any other player, the winger was withdrawn from the action four times, the same number that James McClean and Shane Long were introduced from the bench

Stayed On Bench
Goalkeeper Jack Bonham was an unused substitute six times in January, while of the outfield players, QPR's U21 midfielder Olamide Shodipo was left on the bench in four games

Goals
Daryl Murphy, Shane Long and Anthony Pilkington scored three times in January, with all of both Murphy and Long''s goals coming in home games

Discipline
Aiden McGeady was the only player to be booked three times in January