Swansea City 2-4 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 13 January 2016

Result

Swansea City 2-4 Sunderland

Premier League · Wednesday 13 January 2016, 19:45 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Swansea City 2-4 Sunderland: match report

Swansea City lost to Sunderland 2-4 in the Premier League on Wednesday 13 January 2016. The half-time score was 2-1.

Jermain Defoe opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Swansea City's goals came from Dejan Joksimovic (21', penalty) and André Ayew (40'). Sunderland scored through Jermain Defoe (3'), an own goal by Federico Fernández (49'), Jermain Defoe (61') and Jermain Defoe (85').

Discipline: Swansea City received no yellow cards and 1 red card; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Swansea City were 16th on 20 points from 20 and Sunderland 19th on 15 points from 20. Swansea City went on to finish that season 11th with 50 points, and Sunderland 17th with 37.

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

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Swansea City wins, 6 draws and 1 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Jermain DefoeSunderland · 0-1
  • 21'Penalty goal · Dejan JoksimovicSwansea City · 1-1
  • 37'Red card · Kyle NaughtonSwansea City
  • 40'Goal · André AyewSwansea City · 2-1
  • 49'Own goal · Federico FernándezSunderland · 2-2
  • 61'Goal · Jermain DefoeSunderland · 2-3
  • 67'Yellow card · Vito MannoneSunderland
  • 79'Yellow card · Patrick van AanholtSunderland
  • 85'Goal · Jermain DefoeSunderland · 2-4

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Swansea City 2, draws 6, Sunderland 1.

Team news

Swansea City expected line-up (4-3-3)

Lukasz Fabianski, Neil Taylor, Ashley Williams, Federico Fernández, Àngel Rangel, Sung-yueng Ki, Jack Cork, Leon Britton, Gylfi Sigurdsson, André Ayew, Wayne Routledge

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

Billy Jones, Patrick van Aanholt, Younès Kaboul, John O'Shea, Yann M'Vila, Lee Cattermole, Adam Johnson, Jermain Defoe