Sunderland 2-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 15 April 2023
Result
Sunderland 2-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Saturday 15 April 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Sunderland 2-1 Birmingham City: match report
Sunderland defeated Birmingham City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 15 April 2023. It was 1-1 at half-time.
G. Hall opened the scoring in the 29th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Trai Hume (45+3') and A. Diallo (75'). Birmingham City scored through G. Hall (29').
Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 10th on 58 points from 41 and Birmingham City 17th on 50 points from 41. Sunderland went on to finish that season 6th with 72 points, and Birmingham City 17th with 53.
Sunderland lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Amad Diallo of Sunderland (8.2), ahead of Patrick Roberts (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Sunderland wins, 4 draws and 3 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 16'Yellow card · D. Cirkin
- 29'Goal · G. Hall
- 34'Yellow card · Krystian Bielik
- 45+3'Goal · Trai Hume
- 70'Yellow card · Maxime Colin
- 75'Goal · A. Diallo
- 78'Second yellow · D. Cirkin
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland line-up (3-4-2-1)
Anthony Patterson, Lynden Gooch, Dennis Cirkin, Dan Neil, Trai Hume, Danny Batth, Patrick Roberts, Edouard Michut, Alex Pritchard, Amad Diallo, Jack Clarke
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
John Ruddy, Maxime Colin, Auston Trusty, Krystian Bielik, M. Roberts, Kevin Long, Tahith Chong, Juninho Bacuna, Lukas Jutkiewicz, George Hall, Reda Khadra