Watford 2-1 Sunderland: result and report

Championship · Saturday 28 September 2024

Result

Watford 2-1 Sunderland

Championship · Saturday 28 September 2024, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Watford · Sunderland · Championship predictions

Watford 2-1 Sunderland: match report

Watford won against Sunderland 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 28 September 2024. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Festy Ebosele opened the scoring in the 28th minute. Watford's goals came from Festy Ebosele (28') and Tom Dele-Bashiru (84'). Sunderland scored through Wilson Isidor (49').

Discipline: Watford received 2 yellow cards; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Watford were 9th on 10 points from 6 and Sunderland 2nd on 15 points from 6. Watford went on to finish that season 14th with 57 points, and Sunderland 4th with 82.

Watford lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sunderland in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Festy Ebosele of Watford (7.8), level with Romaine Mundle (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Watford wins, 2 draws and 2 for Sunderland.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Goal · Festy EboseleWatford · 1-0
  • 30'Yellow card · Festy EboseleWatford
  • 45'Yellow card · Jobe BellinghamSunderland
  • 49'Goal · Wilson IsidorSunderland · 1-1
  • 64'Yellow card · Ryan PorteousWatford
  • 84'Goal · Tom Dele-BashiruWatford · 2-1

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Watford 4, draws 2, Sunderland 2.

Team news

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

Jonathan Bond, Mattie Pollock, Angelo Ogbonna, James Morris, Festy Ebosele, Moussa Sissoko, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Yasser Larouci, Edo Kayembe, Giorgi Chakvetadze, Vakoun Bayo

Sunderland line-up (4-3-3)

Anthony Patterson, Trai Hume, Chris Mepham, Luke O'Nien, Dennis Cirkin, Chris Rigg, Dan Neil, Jobe Bellingham, Patrick Roberts, Wilson Isidor, Romaine Mundle