Sunderland 2-0 Stoke City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 28 November 2015

Result

Sunderland 2-0 Stoke City

Premier League · Saturday 28 November 2015, 15:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sunderland 2-0 Stoke City: match report

Sunderland won against Stoke City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 28 November 2015. The half-time score was 0-0.

Patrick van Aanholt opened the scoring in the 82nd minute. Sunderland's goals came from Patrick van Aanholt (82') and Duncan Watmore (84'). Stoke City did not score.

Discipline: Sunderland received no yellow cards; Stoke City received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 18th on 9 points from 13 and Stoke City 11th on 17 points from 13. Sunderland went on to finish that season 17th with 37 points, and Stoke City 13th with 45.

Sunderland lined up in a 3-5-2 and Stoke City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Patrick van Aanholt of Sunderland (8.4), ahead of Yann M'Vila (8.0).

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 33'Yellow card · Charlie AdamStoke City
  • 42'Yellow card · Ryan ShawcrossStoke City
  • 47'Second yellow · Ryan ShawcrossStoke City
  • 81'Yellow card · Erik PietersStoke City
  • 82'Goal · Patrick van AanholtSunderland · 1-0
  • 84'Goal · Duncan WatmoreSunderland · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sunderland 5, draws 3, Stoke City 2.

Team news

Sunderland line-up (3-5-2)

Costel Pantilimon, Sebastián Coates, John O'Shea, Younès Kaboul, DeAndre Yedlin, Sebastian Larsson, Yann M'Vila, Lee Cattermole, Patrick van Aanholt, Steven Fletcher, Jermain Defoe

Stoke City line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jack Butland, Glen Johnson, Ryan Shawcross, Philipp Wollscheid, Erik Pieters, Glenn Whelan, Charlie Adam, Xherdan Shaqiri, Bojan Krkic, Marko Arnautovic, Jonathan Walters