Sunderland 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 20 March 2010

Result

Sunderland 3-1 Birmingham City

Premier League · Saturday 20 March 2010, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

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Sunderland 3-1 Birmingham City: match report

Sunderland defeated Birmingham City 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 20 March 2010. The half-time score was 2-0.

Darren Bent opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Darren Bent (5'), Darren Bent (11') and Fraizer Campbell (88'). Birmingham City scored through Cameron Jerome (60').

Discipline: Sunderland received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 14th on 31 points from 29 and Birmingham City 8th on 44 points from 29. Sunderland went on to finish that season 13th with 44 points, and Birmingham City 9th with 50.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 1 draw and 5 for Birmingham City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Darren BentSunderland · 1-0
  • 11'Goal · Darren BentSunderland · 2-0
  • 43'Yellow card · Craig GardnerBirmingham City
  • 60'Goal · Cameron JeromeBirmingham City · 2-1
  • 88'Goal · Fraizer CampbellSunderland · 3-1

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Sunderland 1, draws 1, Birmingham City 5.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Craig Gordon, Michael Turner, Anton Ferdinand, Alan Hutton, Kieran Richardson, John Mensah, Steed Malbranque, David Meyler, Darren Bent, Benjamin Mwaruwari, Fraizer Campbell

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)

Joe Hart, Stephen Carr, Liam Ridgewell, Roger Johnson, Scott Dann, Michel, Keith Fahey, Craig Gardner, Cameron Jerome, Christian Benitez Betancourt, Barry Ferguson