Story of the night: Bradford City 1-3 Hartlepool United – Mark Cullen magic helps Pools secure first away win
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A brace from full league debutant put Pools in control before Paudie O’Connor headed Bradford back into the game going into the closing stages.
What threatened to be a nervy end to the game proved to be anything but as Yann Songo’o turned Reagan Ogle’s cross into his own net to put the result beyond doubt in stoppage time.
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FULL-TIME: Bradford City 1 (O’Connor 72) Hartlepool United 3 (Cullen 1’, 60’, Songo’o OG 90’)
Key Events
- Bradford XI: O’Donnell, Threlkeld (Cousin-Dawson 61), O’Connor, Songo’o, Cooke, Cook, Gillead (Lavery 61), Foulds, Vernam, Watt (Robinson 77), Sutton
- Bradford subs: Canavan, Kelleher, Evans, Robinson, Cousin-Dawson, Scales, Lavery
- Bradford bookings: Cooke (69), Sutton (87)
- Pools XI: Killip; Ferguson, Byrne, Hendrie, Sterry; Shelton, Featherstone, Daly, Holohan (Fondop 85); Molyneux (Ogle 89), Cullen (Grey 70)
- Pools subs: Odusina, Mitchell, Jones, Grey, Ogle, Crawford, Fondop
- Pools bookings: none
- Referee: Tom Nield
Half-time Pools player ratings
Ben Killip - 7
David Ferguson - 6
Neill Byrne - 7
Luke Hendrie - 6
Jamie Sterry - 6
Nicky Featherstone - 7
Mark Shelton - 6
Gavan Holohan - 7
Matty Daly - 7
Luke Molyneux - 7
Mark Cullen - 7
43: SAVE! Ben Killip called into action
Pools struggle to clear the danger as Charles Vernam picks up the ball and drills a low shot towards the bottom left corner but Ben Killip is equal to it to collect.
33: Molyneux should have made it 2-0!
The Pools forward breaks away and gets one on one with the goalkeeper with the angle slightly against him as he attempts to curl the ball into the far corner of the goal but it goes just wide of the left post.