Sunderland 2-0 Preston North End: result and report
Championship · Monday 1 January 2024
Result
Sunderland 2-0 Preston North End
Championship · Monday 1 January 2024, 12:30 UTC · half-time 2-0
Sunderland 2-0 Preston North End: match report
Sunderland won against Preston North End 2-0 in the Championship on Monday 1 January 2024. The half-time score was 2-0.
Alex Pritchard opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Alex Pritchard (10') and Nazariy Rusyn (44'). Preston North End did not score.
Discipline: Sunderland received no yellow cards; Preston North End received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sunderland were 7th on 37 points from 25 and Preston North End 11th on 35 points from 25. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Preston North End 10th with 63.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Preston North End in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Anthony Patterson of Sunderland (7.8), level with Luke O'Nien (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 2 draws and 4 for Preston North End.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Alex Pritchard
- 39'Yellow card · Liam Lindsay
- 44'Goal · Nazariy Rusyn
Head-to-head
Team news
Unavailable
Sunderland line-up (4-2-3-1)
Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Luke O'Nien, Dan Ballard, Aji Alese, Pierre Ekwah, Dan Neil, Alex Pritchard, Jobe Bellingham, Jack Clarke, Nazariy Rusyn
Preston North End line-up (4-1-4-1)
Freddie Woodman, Brad Potts, Jordan Storey, Liam Lindsay, Andrew Hughes, Ali McCann, Alan Browne, Ben Whiteman, Mads Frøkjaer-Jensen, Liam Millar, Ched Evans