<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.24.1.1/35573?ns=guardian&pageName=Sunderland+2-0+Morecambe+%7C+Capital+One+Cup+second+round%3AArticle%3A1793532&ch=Football&c3=Guardian&c4=Capital+One+Cup+%28Football%29%2CSunderland+%28Football%29%2CMorecambe+%28Football+club%29%2CFootball%2CSport&c5=Unclassified&c6=Louise+Taylor&c7=12-Aug-28&c8=1793532&c9=Article&c10=Match+report&c11=Football&c13=&c25=&c30=content&c42=Sport&h2=GU%2FSport%2FFootball%2FCapital+One+Cup" width="1" height="1" /></div><p>Adam Johnson and Steven Fletcher may be worth a combined sum approaching £25m but James McClean is not the type to allow himself to be upstaged and he simply refused to be eclipsed by his expensive new team-mates.</p><p>McClean's two goals, both created by Johnson, ensured Martin O'Neill's side a safe passage into the third round against a Morecambe side whose slick passing cameos at times belied their position three divisions below Sunderland. Jack Redshaw, a second half substitute for the visitors with a dangerous chance of pace, certainly caught the eye.</p><p>A dry, hazily sunny, day on Wearside ensured that the drainage problems which had caused Sunderland's brand new, freshly laid, pitch to become waterlogged in the face of persistent but hardly torrential rain last Saturday did not recur.</p><p>Informed partly by the postponment of the Premier League game against Reading three days earlier and partly by the realisation that League Two Morecambe had won away at Championship club Blackpool in the last round, Martin O'Neill's lineup was something close to his strongest available XI. Equally importantly, it also permitted Johnson and Fletcher to familiarise themselves with their new team-mates.</p><p>If Fletcher's performance at times reminded everyone that an ankle injury has restricted the former Wolves centre-forward to little more than a few days training this summer, Johnson swiftly made his presence felt. Deployed in a fluid right-sided role, the former Manchester City winger saw plenty of the ball as he asked Morecambe a barrage of awkward questions from open play. Even so, it was a Johnson set piece which finally prompted Sunderland's breakthrough.</p><p>Johnson's left footed, in-swinging, defender confounding, corner from the right picked out James McClean at the near post. Seizing this opportunity to remind everyone that he is a pretty hot property himself, the midfielder unearthed from the reserves by O'Neill last December directed a glancing header beyond Barry Roche.</p><p>After that, the crowd of almost 23,000 sat back and waited for an avalanche but, for all the host's dominance, Morecambe were not about to surrender. Indeed with Andrew Wright proving stubbornly effective in a quasi-sweeping role in front of the visiting defence, Sunderland did not find the tie quite the cakewalk they might have envisaged.</p><p>They were treated to the depressing, if not entirely unfamiliar sight, of Lee Cattermole being booked before McClean offered a more reassuring image. Exhibiting splendid close control, the Ireland international assumed possession from Johnson about 20 yards out, dodged a couple of markers and, finally, defied Roche, courtesy of a fine angled shot with his weaker right foot.</p><p>It proved the cue for Fletcher to be replaced by another home debutant, Louis Saha. The swap was greeted by a warm ovation from Sunderland fans who know there is much more to come from Fletcher once he regains full fitness.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/capital-one-cup">Capital One Cup</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/sunderland">Sunderland</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/morecambe">Morecambe</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/louisetaylor">Louise Taylor</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> © 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" /><img width='1' height='1' src='http://guardian.co.uk.feedsportal.com/c/34708/f/639039/s/22d4a9c4/mf.gif' border='0'/><br/><br/><a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139263652487/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/22d4a9c4/a2.htm"><img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139263652487/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/22d4a9c4/a2.img" border="0"/></a><img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/139263652487/u/49/f/639039/c/34708/s/22d4a9c4/a2t.img" border="0"/>
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