Norwich City 2-1 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Monday 26 September 2011
Result
Norwich City 2-1 Sunderland
Premier League · Monday 26 September 2011, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Norwich City 2-1 Sunderland: match report
Norwich City won against Sunderland 2-1 in the Premier League on Monday 26 September 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Leon Barnett opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Norwich City's goals came from Leon Barnett (31') and Steve Morison (48'). Sunderland scored through Kieran Richardson (86').
Discipline: Norwich City received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Norwich City were 14th on 5 points from 5 and Sunderland 13th on 5 points from 5. Norwich City went on to finish that season 12th with 47 points, and Sunderland 13th with 45.
Going into the match Norwich City's last five read W-L-L-D-D and Sunderland's W-L-D-L-D.
Key events
- 31'Goal · Leon Barnett
- 48'Goal · Steve Morison
- 86'Goal · Kieran Richardson
- 89'Yellow card · John O'Shea
- 90+1'Yellow card · John Ruddy
- 90+4'Yellow card · Kyle Naughton
Team news
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Sunderland line-up (4-4-1-1)
Simon Mignolet, Wes Brown, Kieran Richardson, John O'Shea, Titus Bramble, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Stéphane Sessègnon, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan