Sunderland 3-1 Bolton Wanderers: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 29 December 2007

Result

Sunderland 3-1 Bolton Wanderers

Premier League · Saturday 29 December 2007, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Sunderland 3-1 Bolton Wanderers: match report

Sunderland won against Bolton Wanderers 3-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 29 December 2007. It was 2-1 at half-time.

Kieran Richardson opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Kieran Richardson (13'), K. Jones (32') and Daryl Murphy (90+1'). Bolton Wanderers scored through El-Hadji Diouf (41').

Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Bolton Wanderers received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 19th on 14 points from 19 and Bolton Wanderers 15th on 17 points from 19. Sunderland went on to finish that season 15th with 39 points, and Bolton Wanderers 16th with 37.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Bolton Wanderers in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 2 draws and 2 for Bolton Wanderers.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Kieran RichardsonSunderland · 1-0
  • 14'Yellow card · Kieran RichardsonSunderland
  • 32'Goal · K. JonesSunderland · 2-0
  • 41'Goal · El-Hadji DioufBolton Wanderers · 2-1
  • 67'Yellow card · Kevin DaviesBolton Wanderers
  • 87'Yellow card · El-Hadji DioufBolton Wanderers
  • 90+1'Goal · Daryl MurphySunderland · 3-1

Head-to-head

6 meetings: Sunderland 2, draws 2, Bolton Wanderers 2.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Craig Gordon, Paul McShane, Kieran Richardson, Danny Higginbotham, Danny Collins, Dickson Etuhu, Dean Whitehead, Liam Miller, Michael Chopra, Kenwyne Jones, Andy Cole

Bolton Wanderers line-up (4-4-2)

Jussi Jaaskelainen, Abdoulaye Meite, Joey O'Brien, Andrew O'Brien, Jlloyd Samuel, Gavin McCann, El-Hadji Diouf, Nicolas Anelka, Kevin Nolan, Ricardo Gardner, Kevin Davies