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
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.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 21'Penalty goal · Dejan Joksimovic
- 37'Red card · Kyle Naughton
- 40'Goal · André Ayew
- 49'Own goal · Federico Fernández
- 61'Goal · Jermain Defoe
- 67'Yellow card · Vito Mannone
- 79'Yellow card · Patrick van Aanholt
- 85'Goal · Jermain Defoe
Head-to-head
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