Birmingham City 1-2 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Friday 11 November 2022

Result

Birmingham City 1-2 Sunderland

Championship · Friday 11 November 2022, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

Birmingham City · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Birmingham City 1-2 Sunderland: match report

Birmingham City lost to Sunderland 1-2 in the Championship on Friday 11 November 2022. The half-time score was 0-1.

Ellis Simms opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Birmingham City's goal came from Lukas Jutkiewicz (78'). Sunderland scored through Ellis Simms (25') and A. Diallo (49').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 10th on 28 points from 20 and Sunderland 17th on 24 points from 19. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 17th with 53 points, and Sunderland 6th with 72.

Birmingham City lined up in a 3-5-2 and Sunderland in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Amad Diallo of Sunderland (8.5), ahead of Troy Deeney (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read D-W-D-W-L and Sunderland's L-W-D-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Goal · Ellis SimmsSunderland · 0-1
  • 28'Yellow card · Hannibal MejbriBirmingham City
  • 42'Yellow card · N. HugginsSunderland
  • 49'Goal · A. DialloSunderland · 0-2
  • 74'Yellow card · Corry EvansSunderland
  • 78'Goal · Lukas JutkiewiczBirmingham City · 1-2
  • 88'Yellow card · Jay MateteSunderland
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Jack ClarkeSunderland
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Emmanuel LongeloBirmingham City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 4, draws 4, Sunderland 2.

Team news

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Birmingham City line-up (3-5-2)

John Ruddy, Maxime Colin, Dion Sanderson, Auston Trusty, Juninho Bacuna, Hannibal, Krystian Bielik, Jobe Bellingham, Emmanuel Longelo, Troy Deeney, Scott Hogan

Sunderland line-up (4-2-3-1)

Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Bailey Wright, Danny Batth, Niall Huggins, Josef Dvornik, Dan Neil, Amad Diallo, Alex Pritchard, Jack Clarke, Ellis Simms