Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Sunderland: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 16 January 2016

Result

Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Sunderland

Premier League · Saturday 16 January 2016, 12:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

Tottenham Hotspur · Sunderland · Premier League predictions

Tottenham Hotspur 4-1 Sunderland: match report

Tottenham Hotspur beat Sunderland 4-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 16 January 2016. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Patrick van Aanholt opened the scoring in the 40th minute. Tottenham Hotspur's goals came from Christian Eriksen (42'), Mousa Dembélé (59'), Christian Eriksen (67') and Harry Kane (79', penalty). Sunderland scored through Patrick van Aanholt (40').

Discipline: Tottenham Hotspur received no yellow cards; Sunderland received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Tottenham Hotspur were 4th on 36 points from 21 and Sunderland 18th on 18 points from 21. Tottenham Hotspur went on to finish that season 2nd with 72 points, and Sunderland 17th with 37.

Tottenham Hotspur lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sunderland in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 8 Tottenham Hotspur wins, 2 draws and 0 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 40'Goal · Patrick van AanholtSunderland · 0-1
  • 42'Goal · Christian EriksenTottenham Hotspur · 1-1
  • 46'Yellow card · L. CattermoleSunderland
  • 55'Yellow card · Adam JohnsonSunderland
  • 59'Goal · Mousa DembéléTottenham Hotspur · 2-1
  • 67'Goal · Christian EriksenTottenham Hotspur · 3-1
  • 79'Penalty goal · Harry KaneTottenham Hotspur · 4-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Tottenham Hotspur 8, draws 2, Sunderland 0.

Team news

Tottenham Hotspur expected line-up (4-2-3-1)

Hugo Lloris, Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen, Kyle Walker, Ben Davies, Eric Dier, Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli, Harry Kane

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