Sunderland 2-2 Watford: result and report

Championship · Saturday 29 April 2023

Result

Sunderland 2-2 Watford

Championship · Saturday 29 April 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Sunderland 2-2 Watford: match report

Sunderland drew with Watford 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 29 April 2023. The half-time score was 0-1.

Christian Kabasele opened the scoring in the 17th minute. Sunderland's goals came from Luke O'Nien (70') and P. Roberts (90+5'). Watford scored through Christian Kabasele (17') and R. Porteous (69').

Discipline: Sunderland received 3 yellow cards; Watford received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sunderland were 7th on 65 points from 44 and Watford 13th on 59 points from 44. Sunderland went on to finish that season 6th with 72 points, and Watford 11th with 63.

Sunderland lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Watford in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Ryan Porteous of Watford (8.2), ahead of Luke O'Nien (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sunderland win, 1 draw and 3 for Watford.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 10'Yellow card · Hamza ChoudhuryWatford
  • 17'Goal · Christian KabaseleWatford · 0-1
  • 19'Yellow card · R. PorteousWatford
  • 65'Yellow card · Jack ClarkeSunderland
  • 65'Yellow card · Keinan DavisWatford
  • 69'Goal · R. PorteousWatford · 0-2
  • 70'Goal · Luke O'NienSunderland · 1-2
  • 78'Yellow card · Luke O'NienSunderland
  • 84'Yellow card · A. DialloSunderland
  • 90+5'Goal · P. RobertsSunderland · 2-2

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Sunderland 1, draws 1, Watford 3.

Team news

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

Anthony Patterson, Lynden Gooch, Trai Hume, Luke O'Nien, Dennis Cirkin, Dan Neil, Pierre Ekwah, Patrick Roberts, Amad Diallo, Jack Clarke, Joe Gelhardt

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

Daniel Bachmann, Ryan Andrews, Ryan Porteous, Christian Kabasele, Hassane Kamara, Hamza Dewan Choudhury, Imrân Louza, Ismaïla Sarr, Yáser Asprilla, Ken Sema, Keinan Davis