Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City: result and report

Premier League · Sunday 1 January 2012

Result

Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City

Premier League · Sunday 1 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sunderland 1-0 Manchester City: match report

Sunderland won against Manchester City 1-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 1 January 2012. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Ji Dong-Won of Sunderland in the 90th minute.

Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Manchester City received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 15th on 18 points from 18 and Manchester City 1st on 45 points from 18. Sunderland went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Manchester City 1st with 89.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Manchester City in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 1 draw and 8 for Manchester City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Yellow card · N. de JongManchester City
  • 66'Yellow card · Sebastian LarssonSunderland
  • 90+3'Goal · Ji Dong-WonSunderland · 1-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sunderland 1, draws 1, Manchester City 8.

Team news

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Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Simon Mignolet, Wes Brown, John O'Shea, Lee Cattermole, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Jack Colback, James McClean, Stéphane Sessègnon, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan

Manchester City expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Shay Given, Micah Richards, Joleon Lescott, Jérôme Boateng, James Milner, Shaun Wright-Phillips, David Silva, P. Vieira, Aleksandar Kolarov