Sunderland 2-0 Stoke City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 7 February 2009

Result

Sunderland 2-0 Stoke City

Premier League · Saturday 7 February 2009, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sunderland 2-0 Stoke City: match report

Sunderland defeated Stoke City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 7 February 2009. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Kenwyne Jones opened the scoring in the 78th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Kenwyne Jones (78') and David Healy (90'). Stoke City did not score.

Discipline: Sunderland received 2 yellow cards; Stoke City received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 13th on 27 points from 24 and Stoke City 17th on 24 points from 24. Sunderland went on to finish that season 16th with 36 points, and Stoke City 12th with 45.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Stoke City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sunderland wins, 0 draws and 1 for Stoke City.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 57'Yellow card · Salif Alassane DiaoStoke City
  • 65'Red card · Matthew EtheringtonStoke City
  • 65'Yellow card · Danny CollinsSunderland
  • 78'Goal · Kenwyne JonesSunderland · 1-0
  • 82'Yellow card · Phil BardsleySunderland
  • 90'Goal · David HealySunderland · 2-0

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Sunderland 0, draws 0, Stoke City 1.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Marton Fulop, Phil Bardsley, George McCartney, Kieran Richardson, Danny Collins, Anton Ferdinand, Dean Whitehead, Steed Malbranque, Andy Reid, Djibril Cissé, Kenwyne Jones

Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Thomas Sorensen, Andy Griffin, Abdoulaye Faye, Danny Higginbotham, Ibrahima Sonko, Salif Diao, Amdy Faye, Mamady Sidibé, Dave Kitson, Rory Delap