Ipswich Town 5-2 Sunderland: result and report

Ipswich Town 5-2 Sunderland

Championship · Tuesday 26 September 2017, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-1

Ipswich Town · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Ipswich Town beat Sunderland 5-2 in the Championship on Tuesday 26 September 2017. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Martyn Waghorn opened the scoring in the 6th minute. Ipswich Town's goals came from Martyn Waghorn (6'), Jordan Spence (27'), Bersant Celina (55'), David McGoldrick (60') and Grant Ward (89'). Sunderland scored through Billy Jones (10') and Aiden McGeady (65').

Discipline: Ipswich Town received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Ipswich Town were 7th on 15 points from 8 and Sunderland 22nd on 6 points from 9. Ipswich Town went on to finish that season 12th with 60 points, and Sunderland 24th with 37.

Ipswich Town lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sunderland in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Martyn Waghorn of Ipswich Town (8.8), ahead of Aiden McGeady (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Ipswich Town wins, 0 draws and 3 for Sunderland.