Sunderland 1-3 Manchester United: result and report
Premier League · Saturday 15 October 2005
Result
Sunderland 1-3 Manchester United
Premier League · Saturday 15 October 2005, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1
Sunderland 1-3 Manchester United: match report
Sunderland were beaten by Manchester United 1-3 in the Premier League on Saturday 15 October 2005. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Wayne Rooney opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Sunderland's goal came from Stephen Elliott (82'). Manchester United scored through Wayne Rooney (40'), Ruud van Nistelrooy (76') and Giuseppe Rossi (87').
Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Manchester United received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sunderland were 17th on 5 points from 8 and Manchester United 5th on 14 points from 7. Sunderland went on to finish that season 20th with 15 points, and Manchester United 2nd with 83.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sunderland wins, 1 draw and 5 for Manchester United.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read D-W-D-L-L and Manchester United's W-L-D-D-W.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 35'Yellow card · Cristiano Ronaldo
- 40'Goal · Wayne Rooney
- 43'Yellow card · Steven Caldwell
- 71'Yellow card · Jon Stead
- 76'Goal · Ruud van Nistelrooy
- 82'Goal · Stephen Elliott
- 87'Goal · Giuseppe Rossi
Head-to-head
Team news
Sunderland line-up
Gary Breen, Steven Caldwell, Nyron Nosworthy, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Stephen Elliott, Andy Gray, Kelvin Davis, Andy Welsh, Tommy Miller
Manchester United expected line-up
Roy Carroll, John O'Shea, Rio Ferdinand, Mikaël Silvestre, Wes Brown, Darren Fletcher, Cristiano Ronaldo, Louis Saha, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Ruud van Nistelrooy