Sunderland 1-2 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 23 September 2017
Result
Sunderland 1-2 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 23 September 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Sunderland 1-2 Cardiff City: match report
Sunderland were beaten by Cardiff City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 23 September 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Craig Bryson opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Sunderland's goal came from Lynden Gooch (53', penalty). Cardiff City scored through Craig Bryson (7') and J. Ralls (73', penalty).
Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 21st on 6 points from 8 and Cardiff City 3rd on 17 points from 8. Sunderland went on to finish that season 24th with 37 points, and Cardiff City 4th with 90.
Sunderland lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Cardiff City in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Ralls of Cardiff City (8.5), ahead of Nathaniel Méndez-Laing (8.1).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Sunderland wins, 0 draws and 1 for Cardiff City.
Key events
- 7'Goal · Craig Bryson
- 11'Yellow card · L. Cattermole
- 19'Yellow card · J. Richards
- 53'Penalty goal · Lynden Gooch
- 60'Yellow card · A. Gunnarsson
- 70'Yellow card · Jiang Guangtai
- 73'Penalty goal · J. Ralls
- 73'Yellow card · Lamine Koné
- 81'Yellow card · J. Ralls
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland line-up (3-4-1-2)
Robbin Ruiter, Tyias Browning, Lamine Koné, Marc Wilson, Bryan Oviedo, Lee Cattermole, Didier Ndong, Adam Matthews, James Vaughan, George Honeyman, Lynden Gooch
Cardiff City line-up (4-3-3)
Neil Etheridge, Joe Bennett, Sean Morrison, Bruno Ecuele Manga, Jazz Richards, Joe Ralls, Aron Gunnarsson, Craig Bryson, Kenneth Zohore, Liam Feeney, Nathaniel Méndez-Laing