Walsall 3-3 Bradford City: result and report
League One · Saturday 26 August 2017
Result
Walsall 3-3 Bradford City
League One · Saturday 26 August 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2
Walsall 3-3 Bradford City: match report
Walsall drew with Bradford City 3-3 in the League One on Saturday 26 August 2017. The half-time score was 0-2.
S. McCartan opened the scoring in the 30th minute. Walsall's goals came from Luke Leahy (54'), Tyler Roberts (61') and Amadou Bakayoko (87'). Bradford City scored through S. McCartan (30'), D. Poleon (38') and an own goal by Luke Leahy (49').
Discipline: Walsall received no yellow cards; Bradford City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Walsall were 12th on 4 points from 3 and Bradford City 7th on 6 points from 3. Walsall went on to finish that season 19th with 52 points, and Bradford City 11th with 63.
Walsall lined up in a 3-5-2 and Bradford City in a 4-3-1-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Walsall wins, 3 draws and 3 for Bradford City.
Going into the match Walsall's last five read D-W-L and Bradford City's L-W-W.
Key events
- 30'Goal · S. McCartan
- 38'Goal · D. Poleon
- 49'Own goal · Luke Leahy
- 54'Goal · Luke Leahy
- 61'Goal · Tyler Roberts
- 69'Yellow card · Tom Field
- 75'Yellow card · N. Knight-Percival
- 87'Goal · Amadou Bakayoko
- 88'Yellow card · Tony McMahon
Head-to-head
Team news
Walsall line-up (3-5-2)
Mark Gillespie, Jon Guthrie, Nicky Devlin, James Wilson, Shaun Donnellan, Joe Edwards, Luke Leahy, Adam Chambers, Erhun Oztumer, Kieron Morris, Amadou Bakayoko
Bradford City line-up (4-3-1-2)
Colin Doyle, Matthew Kilgallon, Tom Field, Nathaniel Knight-Percival, Tony McMahon, Jake Reeves, Nicky Law, Alex Gilliead, Charlie Wyke, Dominic Poleon, Shay McCartan