Charlton Athletic 2-0 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 10 December 2005

Result

Charlton Athletic 2-0 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 10 December 2005, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Charlton Athletic 2-0 Sunderland: match report

Charlton Athletic defeated Sunderland 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 10 December 2005. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Darren Bent opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Charlton Athletic's goals came from Darren Bent (42') and Darren Ambrose (49'). Sunderland did not score.

Discipline: Charlton Athletic received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Charlton Athletic were 12th on 19 points from 14 and Sunderland 20th on 5 points from 16. Charlton Athletic went on to finish that season 13th with 47 points, and Sunderland 20th with 15.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Charlton Athletic wins, 3 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

Going into the match Charlton Athletic's last five read L-L-L-L-L and Sunderland's L-L-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 42'Goal · Darren BentCharlton Athletic · 1-0
  • 42'Yellow card · Nyron NosworthySunderland
  • 49'Goal · Darren AmbroseCharlton Athletic · 2-0
  • 86'Yellow card · Steven CaldwellSunderland

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Charlton Athletic 2, draws 3, Sunderland 2.

Team news

Charlton Athletic line-up

Dean Kiely, Luke Young, Danny Murphy, Jerome Thomas, Darren Ambrose, Alexei Smertin, Darren Bent, Hermann Hreidarsson, Chris Perry, Radostin Kishishev, Chris Powell

Sunderland line-up

Gary Breen, Steven Caldwell, Nyron Nosworthy, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Julio Arca, Anthony Le Tallec, Andy Gray, Kelvin Davis, Christian Bassila