Sunderland 5-0 Southampton: result and report

Championship · Saturday 2 September 2023

Result

Sunderland 5-0 Southampton

Championship · Saturday 2 September 2023, 11:30 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Sunderland 5-0 Southampton: match report

Sunderland beat Southampton 5-0 in the Championship on Saturday 2 September 2023. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Jack Clarke opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Sunderland's goals came from Jack Clarke (1'), Pierre Ekwah (7'), Pierre Ekwah (45'), Bradley Dack (48') and Chris Rigg (90+5'). Southampton did not score.

Discipline: Sunderland received 2 yellow cards; Southampton received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 18th on 4 points from 4 and Southampton 4th on 10 points from 4. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 56 points, and Southampton 4th with 94.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Southampton in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Pierre Ekwah of Sunderland (9.2), ahead of Trai Hume (8.2).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 5 draws and 3 for Southampton.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Jack ClarkeSunderland · 1-0
  • 7'Goal · Pierre EkwahSunderland · 2-0
  • 35'Yellow card · Sékou MaraSouthampton
  • 39'Yellow card · Abdoullah BaSunderland
  • 42'Yellow card · Luke O'NienSunderland
  • 45'Goal · Pierre EkwahSunderland · 3-0
  • 48'Goal · Bradley DackSunderland · 4-0
  • 69'Yellow card · Ché AdamsSouthampton
  • 90+5'Goal · Chris RiggSunderland · 5-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sunderland 2, draws 5, Southampton 3.

Team news

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Sunderland line-up (4-2-3-1)

Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Luke O'Nien, Dan Ballard, Dennis Cirkin, Dan Neil, Pierre Ekwah, Abdoullah Ba, Bradley Dack, Jack Clarke, Jobe Bellingham

Southampton line-up (4-2-3-1)

Gavin Bazunu, Kyle Walker-Peters, Jan Bednarek, Mason Holgate, Ryan Manning, Will Smallbone, Flynn Downes, Stuart Armstrong, Sékou Mara, Adam Armstrong, Samuel Edozie