Stoke City 3-2 Sunderland: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 5 February 2011
Result
Stoke City 3-2 Sunderland
Premier League · Saturday 5 February 2011, 12:45 UTC · half-time 1-1
Stoke City 3-2 Sunderland: match report
Stoke City beat Sunderland 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 5 February 2011. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Kieran Richardson opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Stoke City's goals came from John Carew (32'), Robert Huth (83') and Robert Huth (90+2'). Sunderland scored through Kieran Richardson (3') and Asamoah Gyan (48').
Discipline: Stoke City received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Stoke City were 11th on 30 points from 24 and Sunderland 6th on 37 points from 25. Stoke City went on to finish that season 13th with 46 points, and Sunderland 10th with 47.
Stoke City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sunderland in a 4-1-3-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Stoke City wins, 1 draw and 2 for Sunderland.
Going into the match Stoke City's last five read L-L-W-L-W and Sunderland's L-W-D-W-W.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Kieran Richardson
- 30'Yellow card · Sulley Muntari
- 32'Goal · John Carew
- 48'Goal · Asamoah Gyan
- 56'Yellow card · Stéphane Sessègnon
- 73'Yellow card · Rory Delap
- 80'Yellow card · Jordan Henderson
- 83'Goal · Robert Huth
- 90+2'Goal · Robert Huth
Head-to-head
Team news
Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Asmir Begović, Robert Huth, Danny Higginbotham, Abdoulaye Faye, Dean Whitehead, Dave Kitson
Sunderland line-up (4-1-3-2)
Craig Gordon, Phil Bardsley, Kieran Richardson, John Mensah, Nedum Onuoha, Titus Bramble, Anton Ferdinand, Jordan Henderson, Sulley Muntari, Stéphane Sessègnon, Asamoah Gyan