Sunderland 2-3 Crystal Palace: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 24 September 2016
Result
Sunderland 2-3 Crystal Palace
Premier League · Saturday 24 September 2016, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sunderland 2-3 Crystal Palace: match report
Sunderland lost to Crystal Palace 2-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 24 September 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Jermain Defoe (39') and Jermain Defoe (60'). Crystal Palace scored through Joe Ledley (61'), James McArthur (76') and Christian Benteke (90+4').
Discipline: Sunderland received no yellow cards; Crystal Palace received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 19th on 1 point from 5 and Crystal Palace 8th on 7 points from 5. Sunderland went on to finish that season 20th with 24 points, and Crystal Palace 14th with 41.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-3-3 and Crystal Palace in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to James McArthur of Crystal Palace (8.5), ahead of Jermain Defoe (8.3).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 1 draw and 3 for Crystal Palace.
Key events
- 39'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 45+4'Yellow card · Yohan Cabaye
- 60'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 61'Goal · Joe Ledley
- 72'Yellow card · J. Puncheon
- 76'Goal · James McArthur
- 90+4'Goal · Christian Benteke
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland line-up (4-3-3)
Jordan Pickford, Javier Manquillo, Lamine Koné, Papy Djilobodji, Patrick van Aanholt, Didier Ndong, Jan Kirchhoff, Lee Cattermole, Adnan Januzaj, Jermain Defoe, Steven Pienaar
Crystal Palace line-up (4-2-3-1)
Steve Mandanda, Joel Ward, James Tomkins, Damien Delaney, Martin Kelly, James McArthur, Joe Ledley, Jason Puncheon, Yohan Cabaye, Andros Townsend, Christian Benteke