Crystal Palace 0-1 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Monday 23 November 2015

Result

Crystal Palace 0-1 Sunderland

Premier League · Monday 23 November 2015, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Crystal Palace · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Crystal Palace 0-1 Sunderland: match report

Crystal Palace were beaten by Sunderland 0-1 in the Premier League on Monday 23 November 2015. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Jermain Defoe of Sunderland in the 80th minute.

Discipline: Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 9th on 19 points from 12 and Sunderland 19th on 6 points from 12. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 15th with 42 points, and Sunderland 17th with 37.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sunderland in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Sebastián Coates of Sunderland (8.5), ahead of Yohan Cabaye (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 1 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 53'Yellow card · Billy JonesSunderland
  • 57'Yellow card · Jermain DefoeSunderland
  • 66'Yellow card · S. DannCrystal Palace
  • 67'Yellow card · Yann M'VilaSunderland
  • 80'Goal · Jermain DefoeSunderland · 0-1

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Crystal Palace 2, draws 1, Sunderland 1.

Team news

Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)

Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Damien Delaney, Pape Souaré, Yohan Cabaye, James McArthur, Yannick Bolasie, Jason Puncheon, Wilfried Zaha, Connor Wickham

Sunderland line-up (3-5-2)

Costel Pantilimon, Sebastián Coates, John O'Shea, Younès Kaboul, Billy Jones, Sebastian Larsson, Yann M'Vila, Lee Cattermole, Patrick van Aanholt, Steven Fletcher, Jermain Defoe