Sunderland 2-0 Swansea City: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2012

Result

Sunderland 2-0 Swansea City

Premier League · Saturday 21 January 2012, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sunderland 2-0 Swansea City: match report

Sunderland beat Swansea City 2-0 in the Premier League on Saturday 21 January 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Stéphane Sessègnon opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Stéphane Sessègnon (14') and Craig Gardner (85'). Swansea City did not score.

Neither side received a card.

Going into the game Sunderland were 12th on 24 points from 21 and Swansea City 10th on 26 points from 21. Sunderland went on to finish that season 13th with 45 points, and Swansea City 11th with 47.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-4-2 and Swansea City in a 4-3-2-1.

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

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · Stéphane SessègnonSunderland · 1-0
  • 85'Goal · Craig GardnerSunderland · 2-0

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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Sunderland line-up (4-4-2)

Simon Mignolet, Phil Bardsley, Wes Brown, Kieran Richardson, John O'Shea, Lee Cattermole, Sebastian Larsson, James McClean, Stéphane Sessègnon, Nicklas Bendtner, David Vaughan

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

Michel Vorm, Ashley Williams, Steven Caulker, Àngel Rangel, Scott Sinclair, Nathan Dyer, Joe Allen, Gylfi Sigurdsson, Danny Graham, Neil Taylor, Leon Britton