Southampton 1-1 Sunderland: result and report

Southampton 1-1 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 5 March 2016, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Southampton drew with Sunderland 1-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 March 2016. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 85th minute. Southampton's goal came from Virgil van Dijk (90+3'). Sunderland scored through Jermain Defoe (85').

Discipline: Southampton received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Southampton were 9th on 40 points from 28 and Sunderland 18th on 23 points from 28. Southampton went on to finish that season 7th with 63 points, and Sunderland 17th with 37.

Southampton lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sunderland in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Virgil van Dijk of Southampton (8.6), ahead of Lamine Koné (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Southampton wins, 4 draws and 3 for Sunderland.

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