Crystal Palace 0-4 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 4 February 2017

Result

Crystal Palace 0-4 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 4 February 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-4

Crystal Palace · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Crystal Palace 0-4 Sunderland: match report

Crystal Palace were beaten by Sunderland 0-4 in the Premier League on Saturday 4 February 2017. It was 0-4 at half-time.

Lamine Koné opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Crystal Palace did not score. Sunderland scored through Lamine Koné (9'), Didier Ndong (43'), Jermain Defoe (45+1') and Jermain Defoe (45+3').

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

Going into the game Crystal Palace were 18th on 19 points from 23 and Sunderland 20th on 16 points from 23. Crystal Palace went on to finish that season 14th with 41 points, and Sunderland 20th with 24.

Crystal Palace lined up in a 3-4-3 and Sunderland in a 3-5-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lamine Koné of Sunderland (8.6), ahead of Vito Mannone (8.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Crystal Palace wins, 1 draw and 2 for Sunderland.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 6'Yellow card · Sebastian LarssonSunderland
  • 9'Goal · Lamine KonéSunderland · 0-1
  • 31'Yellow card · Adnan JanuzajSunderland
  • 33'Yellow card · Wilfried ZahaCrystal Palace
  • 43'Goal · Didier NdongSunderland · 0-2
  • 45+1'Goal · Jermain DefoeSunderland · 0-3
  • 45+3'Goal · Jermain DefoeSunderland · 0-4
  • 66'Yellow card · Joel WardCrystal Palace
  • 71'Yellow card · Lamine KonéSunderland
  • 84'Yellow card · J. PuncheonCrystal Palace

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Wayne Hennessey, James Tomkins, Scott Dann, Damien Delaney, Joel Ward, Jason Puncheon, Yohan Cabaye, Patrick van Aanholt, Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke, James McArthur

Sunderland line-up (3-5-1-1)

Vito Mannone, Lamine Koné, John O'Shea, Jason Denayer, Billy Jones, Didier Ndong, Jack Rodwell, Sebastian Larsson, Bryan Oviedo, Adnan Januzaj, Jermain Defoe