Accrington Stanley 1-3 Sunderland: result and report
League One · Saturday 14 September 2019
Result
Accrington Stanley 1-3 Sunderland
League One · Saturday 14 September 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-3
Accrington Stanley 1-3 Sunderland: match report
Accrington Stanley were beaten by Sunderland 1-3 in the League One on Saturday 14 September 2019. It was 1-3 at half-time.
Jordan Clark opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Accrington Stanley's goal came from Jordan Clark (5'). Sunderland scored through Lynden Gooch (7'), Aiden McGeady (25') and Marc McNulty (36').
Discipline: Accrington Stanley received 1 yellow card; Sunderland received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Accrington Stanley were 19th on 5 points from 6 and Sunderland 8th on 11 points from 6. Accrington Stanley went on to finish that season 17th with 40 points, and Sunderland 8th with 59.
Accrington Stanley lined up in a 4-1-3-2 and Sunderland in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Pritchard of Accrington Stanley (7.8), ahead of Sam Finley (7.7).
Going into the match Accrington Stanley's last five read D-W-L-L-D and Sunderland's L-W-W-W-D.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Jordan Clark
- 7'Goal · Lynden Gooch
- 24'Yellow card · Grant Leadbitter
- 25'Goal · Aiden McGeady
- 36'Goal · Marc McNulty
- 83'Yellow card · Aji Alese
Team news
Accrington Stanley line-up (4-1-3-2)
Dimitar Evtimov, Callum Johnson, Ross Sykes, Mark Hughes, Jerome Opoku, Lamine Kaba Sherif, Jordan Clark, Sam Finley, Joe Pritchard, Dion Charles, Colby Bishop
Sunderland line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jon McLaughlin, Luke O'Nien, Alim Öztürk, Jordan Willis, Denver Hume, George Dobson, Grant Leadbitter, Lynden Gooch, Chris Maguire, Aiden McGeady, Marc McNulty