Sunderland 4-0 Stoke City: result and report
Premier League · Sunday 18 September 2011
Result
Sunderland 4-0 Stoke City
Premier League · Sunday 18 September 2011, 14:00 UTC · half-time 3-0
Sunderland 4-0 Stoke City: match report
Sunderland won against Stoke City 4-0 in the Premier League on Sunday 18 September 2011. The half-time score was 3-0.
Titus Bramble opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Titus Bramble (5'), an own goal by Jonathan Woodgate (11'), Craig Gardner (28') and Sebastian Larsson (59'). Stoke City did not score.
Discipline: Sunderland received 1 yellow card; Stoke City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sunderland were 19th on 2 points from 4 and Stoke City 5th on 8 points from 4. Sunderland went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Stoke City 14th with 45.
Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Stoke City in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Sunderland wins, 1 draw and 3 for Stoke City.
Going into the match Sunderland's last five read L-D-L-D and Stoke City's W-W-D-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Titus Bramble
- 11'Own goal · Jonathan Woodgate
- 28'Goal · Craig Gardner
- 54'Yellow card · Sebastian Larsson
- 55'Yellow card · Robert Huth
- 59'Goal · Sebastian Larsson
- 90+4'Yellow card · Peter Crouch
Head-to-head
Team news
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Sunderland line-up (4-4-1-1)
Simon Mignolet, Wes Brown, Kieran Richardson, John O'Shea, Titus Bramble, Sebastian Larsson, Craig Gardner, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Stéphane Sessègnon, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan
Stoke City expected line-up (4-4-2)
Asmir Begović, Robert Huth, Danny Higginbotham, Abdoulaye Faye, Dean Whitehead, Dave Kitson