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 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.
Key events
- 25'Goal · Ellis Simms
- 28'Yellow card · Hannibal Mejbri
- 42'Yellow card · N. Huggins
- 49'Goal · A. Diallo
- 74'Yellow card · Corry Evans
- 78'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 88'Yellow card · Jay Matete
- 90+7'Yellow card · Jack Clarke
- 90+7'Yellow card · Emmanuel Longelo
Head-to-head
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