Sunderland 1-2 Crystal Palace: result and report

Premier League · Tuesday 1 March 2016

Result

Sunderland 1-2 Crystal Palace

Premier League · Tuesday 1 March 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sunderland 1-2 Crystal Palace: match report

Sunderland lost to Crystal Palace 1-2 in the Premier League on Tuesday 1 March 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.

Dame N'Doye opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Dame N'Doye (36') and Fabio Borini (90'). Crystal Palace scored through Connor Wickham (61') and Connor Wickham (67').

Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Crystal Palace received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 18th on 23 points from 27 and Crystal Palace 14th on 30 points from 27. Sunderland went on to finish that season 17th with 37 points, and Crystal Palace 15th with 42.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Connor Wickham of Crystal Palace (8.5), ahead of Yann M'Vila (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 1 draw and 2 for Crystal Palace.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · J. RodwellSunderland
  • 36'Goal · Dame N'DoyeSunderland · 1-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · S. DannCrystal Palace
  • 61'Goal · Connor WickhamCrystal Palace · 1-1
  • 67'Goal · Connor WickhamCrystal Palace · 1-2
  • 90'Goal · Fabio BoriniSunderland · 2-2

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Sunderland 2, draws 1, Crystal Palace 2.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (4-1-4-1)

Vito Mannone, DeAndre Yedlin, Lamine Koné, John O'Shea, Patrick van Aanholt, Jan Kirchhoff, Dame N'Doye, Yann M'Vila, Jack Rodwell, Wahbi Khazri, Jermain Defoe

Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)

Wayne Hennessey, Joel Ward, Scott Dann, Damien Delaney, Martin Kelly, Yohan Cabaye, Mile Jedinak, Wilfried Zaha, Jordon Mutch, Yannick Bolasie, Connor Wickham