Sunderland 0-3 Coventry City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 23 December 2023
Result
Sunderland 0-3 Coventry City
Championship · Saturday 23 December 2023, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Sunderland 0-3 Coventry City: match report
Sunderland were beaten by Coventry City 0-3 in the Championship on Saturday 23 December 2023. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Tatsuhiro Sakamoto opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Sunderland did not score. Coventry City scored through Tatsuhiro Sakamoto (45+1'), Callum O'Hare (67') and Kasey Palmer (70').
Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Coventry City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 7th on 33 points from 22 and Coventry City 16th on 27 points from 22. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Coventry City 9th with 64.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Coventry City in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Brad Collins of Coventry City (8.1), ahead of Callum O'Hare (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 2 draws and 3 for Coventry City.
Key events
- 25'Yellow card · Trai Hume
- 45+1'Goal · Tatsuhiro Sakamoto
- 45+4'Yellow card · Luke O'Nien
- 53'Yellow card · Bradley Collins
- 64'Yellow card · Jake Bidwell
- 67'Goal · Callum O'Hare
- 70'Goal · Kasey Palmer
- 88'Yellow card · Dan Neil
Head-to-head
Team news
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Sunderland line-up (4-1-4-1)
Anthony Patterson, Niall Huggins, Luke O'Nien, Dan Ballard, Trai Hume, Pierre Ekwah, Patrick Roberts, Dan Neil, Jobe Bellingham, Jack Clarke, Abdoullah Ba
Coventry City line-up (4-1-4-1)
Brad Collins, Milan van Ewijk, Bobby Thomas, Liam Kitching, Jake Bidwell, Jamie Allen, Tatsuhiro Sakamoto, Callum O'Hare, Ben Sheaf, Haji Wright, Ellis Simms