Sunderland 1-4 Newcastle United: result and report

Premier League · Monday 17 April 2006

Result

Sunderland 1-4 Newcastle United

Premier League · Monday 17 April 2006, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sunderland 1-4 Newcastle United: match report

Sunderland were beaten by Newcastle United 1-4 in the Premier League on Monday 17 April 2006. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Justin Hoyte opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Sunderland's goal came from Justin Hoyte (32'). Newcastle United scored through Michael Chopra (60'), A. Shearer (61', penalty), Charles N'Zogbia (66') and Albert Luque (87').

Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Newcastle United received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 20th on 12 points from 33 and Newcastle United 9th on 48 points from 34. Sunderland went on to finish that season 20th with 15 points, and Newcastle United 7th with 58.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 2 draws and 4 for Newcastle United.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · Justin HoyteSunderland · 1-0
  • 57'Yellow card · Jordan ArcherNewcastle United
  • 60'Goal · Michael ChopraNewcastle United · 1-1
  • 61'Penalty goal · A. ShearerNewcastle United · 1-2
  • 66'Goal · Charles N'ZogbiaNewcastle United · 1-3
  • 77'Yellow card · George McCartneySunderland
  • 81'Yellow card · Titus BrambleNewcastle United
  • 87'Goal · Albert LuqueNewcastle United · 1-4

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Sunderland 1, draws 2, Newcastle United 4.

Team news

Sunderland line-up

George McCartney, Steven Caldwell, Danny Collins, Justin Hoyte, Liam Lawrence, Dean Whitehead, Jon Stead, Chris Brown, Daryl Murphy, Kelvin Davis, Tommy Miller

Newcastle United line-up

Shay Given, Stephen Carr, Craig Moore, Titus Bramble, Celestine Babayaro, Kieron Dyer, Charles N'Zogbia, Amdy Faye, N. Solano, Alan Shearer, Lee Robert Clark